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Mixing Business With Pleasure: Why This Boss Lets Employees Masturbate at Work

By M. Christian
September 3, 2022
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Erika Lust provides her Barcelona employees with a dedicated masturbation space.

Furthering her advocacy for the emotional, sexual, and physical benefits of masturbation, adult entertainment filmmaker and production company president, Erika Lust, is allowing her team to take 30-minute self-pleasure breaks.

“With the pandemic and the huge shift in how we live our lives, I began to notice that my employees had become somewhat agitated and were performing with less energy than before,” Lust told Dazed.

Her solution was to provide her Barcelona employees with a dedicated masturbation space.  

Cat, who is in charge of comms and content, also told Dazed that the policy has been extremely popular: 

“A masturbation break at work can result in more focus from your employees, less aggression, more productivity, and better teamwork.”

Using masturbation as a tool for managing stress

In May, Lust combined her new policy with her support of self-pleasuring by releasing an ASMR recording of her staff enjoying themselves to coincide with International Masturbation Day.

Other companies joined in as well. Allbodies, specializing in online sexual education classes, partnered with Lust to help promote the event, while Fun Factory provided sex toys.

Talking about its many benefits, Lust told The News Democracy: “The truth is masturbation can help people manage stress, regulate their sleep, and connect with their body and sexual desires, among other advantages.”

Lust also produced Masturbation Conversations, a short documentary available to watch on YouTube.

RELATED READ: Our Sex lives and Sex Tech Supply in COVID-era 2022

People are already self-pleasuring on the clock

According to a 2016 informal survey by TimeOut, 39 percent of those polled said they masturbate at work.

The reasons varied from trying to recover from a hangover to releasing tension. Though one person explained, “If you get on a sex app like Grindr, and you have guys asking you to take naughty pictures and telling you what they want to do to you, it tends to… distract you.”

While TimeOut wasn’t striving for scientific accuracy, so many people freely confessing to self-pleasuring while on the clock says a lot about how popular it likely is.

Will masturbation breaks become the norm?

By giving her staff permission to have masturbation breaks, Lust openly encourages what the participants in the TimeOut survey already know: At-work-wanking can be more of a pro and less of a con.

It also does wonders for getting the word out that masturbation is okay.

As Planned Parenthood puts it: “Masturbation isn’t unhealthy or bad for you at all. Masturbation can actually be good for your health, both mentally and physically.”

Image sources: Scott Sanker

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.
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