All Hands On Deck: Celebrating International Masturbation Month, 2025

Hands out, lube ready, toys powered, friends invited; welcome International Masturbation Month 2025!

Join in alone, or with a friend, even with a group of fellow tuggers and diddlers, but people around the world

are showing their support for self-love this month of May once again.

Lucky for us all.

How It Began

Wikipedia tells us that “The first National Masturbation Day was held on May 7, 1995, after sex-positive retailer Good Vibrations declared the day in honor of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders who was fired by President Bill Clinton in 1994 for suggesting masturbation be part of the sex education curriculum for students.”

Later the U.S. day became an international hands-on and has remained that way.

The history of masturbation? Well, that goes way back, as you’d expect.

According to this piece, women in ancient Greece baked hard bread sticks, called “olisbokollikes” to use as... you’d expect. According to Johnathan Margolis’s book "The Intimate History Of The Orgasm," pharaohs held ceremonies to jerk off onto the Nile. And in 1883 Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville invented Granville’s Hammer to help relieve muscle tension…the hammer worked wonders for women especially!

And these are just a few of the noted moments of self-love that happened in our global history.

The Pros Participate

So many folks, shops, and overall sex-positive institutions celebrate the month. Retailer Beducated is offering 50% off products (see here), Stockroom 25% off certain dildos, vibrators, masturbators and anal toys, and Good Vibrations is offering a 15% 'May Play' coupon. Sexologist and intimacy educator Tiffany Chan, Ed.D., has just put out her new “Touchpoints: A Sensual Somatic Journaling Guide" a "love letter, a reawakening,” as she says, guide inviting readers to return to their bodies through sensual ritual, emotional honesty and intentional self-touch.

And Honey Play Box offers its 31-Day Self-Love Challenge.

So, get busy! The world is not just watching, it’s a whacking!