"Beat off" . . . Slang of American or British origin?

[Guest cardan]

To beat off, or beating off, to beat it, is slang in America for MASTURBATE, is it used in the UK too? Is that where it's from? What is the story of this unscrupulous term?

[kaen]

no, to bash one out or rub one out is more common

[Zephyr_Nova]

"Bash one out" is new to me. Sounds painful, but I like it. Will use.

[BCM]

of course beat off is used in the UK.... it's origins are technically English I guess, but probably used more frequently in the US.

[Guest cardan]

Ooooooghhhh I'M A MAN I BEAT AND BASH MY DICK AAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHH RAW POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Guest Ricky Downtown]

i say jerk it

[BCM]

I say strangling kojak.

[oscillik]

as someone who has lived in various different parts of the UK (Essex, Widnes, St. Helens, Birmingham, Burton-upon-Trent) and has frequented surrounding areas, i can say that i haven't ever heard anyone say the phrase "beating off" or any variation including the word "beat" in the context of masturbation

[mcbpete]

no, to bash one out or rub one out is more common

I'd say "have a wank" is the most common English term for it ...

[Guest Gary C]

I genuinely thought this was going to be a discussion on the terms used by American and English 'beat' poets. Like a Beat Off.

 

[funkaholic]

i say pleasure myself

[spratters]

I never hear English people saying 'beat off'.

 

'Have a wank' is probably the most common. And the most obvious to what you are doing.

[Redruth]

fap

[Guest sine]

I think the nearest Ive ever heard is 'beat your meat' but then the middle school phoned and demanded their juvenile euphemism back.

[encey]

From kottke.org today:

 

Prime ministers I have known

 

Unless you're from the UK (or watched Spitting Image and all sorts of other British comedies on PBS as an impressionable youth in Wisconsin), the observations of Parliamentary sketchwriter Simon Hoggart about the prime ministers he has covered might be too inside baseball, but I couldn't help sharing this Thatcher anecdote about her unwitting skill with double entendre:

 

But Thatcher saved the best of all for her victory tour of the Falkland Islands. She was taken to inspect a large field gun, basically a ride-on lawnmower with a barrel several feet long. It was on a bluff, overlooking a plain on which another Argentine invasion might one day materialise. She admired the weapon, and the soldier manning it asked if she would like to fire a round.

 

"But mightn't it jerk me off?" she replied. Chris Moncrieff of the Press Association, who was covering the visit, recorded the manful struggle of the soldier to keep his face, indeed his whole body, straight.

 

Actually, all the Thatcher stories are quite good. (thx, tom)

[Guest Ranky Redlof]

expert dick twiddling

[colunga]

"Beat Off" is used a lot here in the US. I just say "jerk" or "jack off".

 

When I was in Laredo TX I heard "Throw a wack" often enough for me to think it's common place down there. But when referring to eating they used to say "throw a munch" also...so maybe it's just about throwing things...maybe it was just a particular circle.

[Guest tht tne]

i masturbated my penis

[chassis]

Rub one out

wank

spank one out

proper westie

[tontonz1]

proper westie?

[baph]

playing An Arched Pathway

[Guest Rambo]

"would you say that you are having sex with your own dick or would you say that your dick is having sex with you?" - Helen Mirren

[encey]

That's like asking, 'Would you say that you are having a conversation with your friend or would you say that your friend is having a conversation with you?' -- Mirren (or her character) misunderstands the logic of 'having sex.' :(

[Guest Rambo]

sorry encey, i think i made that up

[chassis]

lol