Not just for the young?
. “The ‘circle jerk’ is one of my first memories,” wrote one student. “We all stood around in a circle, told stories about girls and rubbed our penises until we got hard-ons. Then we ejaculated. The purpose was to see who could ejaculate the farthest.”
6. Rodale Press put out a magazine called Men’s Confidential in 1996 that surveyed readers about “group masturbation.” The survey drew on hundreds of responses from men, the vast majority of whom self-described as heterosexual and married. Forty-four percent reported shared jack-offs as adults. “We all agreed that the experience enhanced sex with our wives,” one man wrote about his local circle jerk.
7. “When I was in my 40s,” another respondent shared, “I joined a group of men who would get together two times a month. For a few hours, we would trade stories about our sexual experiences with our wives and start masturbating ourselves in a circle.”
8. In the metaphorical sense, “circle jerk” is a pejorative referring to a positive feedback loop that occurs when an idea, belief or meme that’s already customary within an online community becomes reiterated and rewarded in a perpetual cycle. It’s typically used to refer to self-congratulatory behavior or discussion among a group of people, usually in reference to a “boring or time-wasting meeting or other event,” also known as an “echo chamber.” (Of course this doesn’t go both ways—i.e., jerking off with a bunch of dudes is not, and has never been, considered an echo chamber
6. Rodale Press put out a magazine called Men’s Confidential in 1996 that surveyed readers about “group masturbation.” The survey drew on hundreds of responses from men, the vast majority of whom self-described as heterosexual and married. Forty-four percent reported shared jack-offs as adults. “We all agreed that the experience enhanced sex with our wives,” one man wrote about his local circle jerk.
7. “When I was in my 40s,” another respondent shared, “I joined a group of men who would get together two times a month. For a few hours, we would trade stories about our sexual experiences with our wives and start masturbating ourselves in a circle.”
8. In the metaphorical sense, “circle jerk” is a pejorative referring to a positive feedback loop that occurs when an idea, belief or meme that’s already customary within an online community becomes reiterated and rewarded in a perpetual cycle. It’s typically used to refer to self-congratulatory behavior or discussion among a group of people, usually in reference to a “boring or time-wasting meeting or other event,” also known as an “echo chamber.” (Of course this doesn’t go both ways—i.e., jerking off with a bunch of dudes is not, and has never been, considered an echo chamber
