Las Vegas, NV–Citing his body's need for a brief rest period, as well as a desire to preserve some sense of personal dignity, Las Vegas resident Russ Harrison announced Tuesday that it was "just a little too soon to masturbate again."
Las Vegas resident Russ Harrison.
"I already masturbated once tonight, since My Name Is Earl was a rerun, and I had, like, 20 minutes to kill before my pizza got here," the 27-year-old Harrison told reporters an hour after his first masturbatory session. "I was gonna do it again, but I figured it would be kind of weird if I did it again so soon, so I decided to try to kill some time."
But even after eating the pizza, watching The Office, moving the dry dishes from the dishrack to the cupboard, and removing his clothes from the dryer, Harrison said he still did not feel like enough time had passed to respectably masturbate again.
"I figured that if I did all that productive, housework-type stuff, I'd feel like I accomplished enough that I could masturbate without guilt," said Harrison, pairing socks on his couch. "But I still feel like I need a little more non-sexual down-time before I can jack off again without damaging my sense of self-worth. If I wait just a little bit longer, it will be more special, and I'll respect myself more for it afterwards."
Harrison, who engages in manual penile self-stimulation five to seven times a week, said he would prefer not to masturbate again right away, but that circumstances have made another perfunctory self-induced climax all but inevitable.
"I don't really feel like leaving the house, since it's after ten on a Thursday. There's nothing on TV, I've played all my video games, I'm not hungry, and I have to work in the morning, so I can't get drunk," Harrison said. "So basically, I've really got no choice."
To minimize feelings of self-loathing during his next masturbation session, Harrison said he plans to visualize an actual woman with whom he has socialized.
"The first time I jerked off tonight, I used a photo of Star Jones in the latest issue of TV Guide for sexual stimulus," Harrison said. "It did the trick, but it kind of made me feel like a loser. For my next bout, rather than use a picture of a celebrity, I will close my eyes and imagine someone I actually know–perhaps that cute blonde girl who works at the Blockbuster."
Harrison is also considering visualizing Nancy Quigley, his seventh-grade lab partner.
"Once, I saw her panties, and I must've thought about that a thousand times during my early masturbation years, so that's always a reliable fantasy," Harrison said. "But it's kind of creepy, if you think about it, because that means I'm getting off on looking up a 13-year-old girl's dress. So you can see how I'd be reluctant to exercise that option."
Harrison, who once went three full weeks without masturbating in 1989 due to a lack of privacy during a family vacation, first masturbated in the summer of 1985. Since then, observers say, he has self-induced an estimated 4,200 ejaculations.
Harrison stressed that his decision to forestall masturbation was based purely on his personal ethics regarding masturbational frequencies and in no way stemmed from any physical shortcomings. "Believe me, I am more than capable of masturbating twice within a short time-span," he said. "I don't have any problem performing in that area at all."
