On the cusp of releasing his second book about life as a solosexual, Jason Amstrong takes a trip down memory lane to a post he wrote on The Bator Blog years in 2016. Once upon…

Bators often refer to and greet each other as brothers. They form, in a very real sense, a brotherhood founded on the practice and art of masturbation. Online communities like bateworld provide the common bator a safe and open environment where they can explore, talk about, and share their fondness for masturbation with like minded men. In addition to the camaraderie and reassurance, many men find it more exciting to bate with other men.

In another revealing post M.B. Timothy (Saboteur on Bateworld) touches on feelings of shame around masturbation. He also explains how we can overcome it. This is an excerpt from Timothy’s book CEDAR: An Ode To Masturbation, available…

Recently Bateworld was cited in an article on BuzzFeed titled “Why Some Guys Like Jerking Off Together” and now many more men are finding out what most of us masturbators have known for some time…

Gooning the Gooner

Okay, so we’re masturbating and we’re inside/outside of ourselves. We’re so far “gone” in the state of masturbation that we are able to experience ourselves having this blissful experience. Your pleasure is heightened to the point that you yourself are the pleasure.

I get off on getting off, but I’m basically getting off to myself, if you think about it. Is this some form of narcissism? Where does the line blur?

Spiritual? Like worshipping cock?

QUESTION: Bruce—I’ve looked at your site, which is great, and you seem to talk about masturbation being spiritual. How can this be, when religions and lots of people condemn it? Of course, I like it personally, that’s why I’m here. But spiritual? I don’t get that unless it’s, like, worshiping cock?

RESPONSE: Most definitely the pleasure your penis provides you with alters your consciousness, takes you into an exalted state, and can take you into a realm beyond words that some guys call gooning or monkey-bate babble. With all due respect to those who take religions seriously, those last experiences I mentioned remind me of “speaking in tongues,” or “glossolalia.” How can anything be more spiritual than these states where you go out of your mind in ecstasy, and enter the void of total oblivion? Each time you come back, is like a rebirth, right? Of course, you don’t need to agree with any of this.