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Mutual masturbation is a sexual act where two or more people stimulate themselves or one another sexually, usually with the hands.

This may be done in situations where the participants do not feel physically able (or that it is socially appropriate) to have full sexual intercourse, but still wish to have a mutual sexual act. It is also done as part of the full repertoire of sexual intercourse, where it may be used as an interlude, a form of foreplay or simply as an alternative activity to insertion. In some people, it is the primary sexual activity of choice above all others because it enables the individuals to see face to face and leaves the hands free to caress, as seen in frottage (see below). Mutual masturbation can be practiced by people of all sexual orientations. If used as an alternative to penile-vaginal penetration, the aim may be to preserve virginity or to prevent pregnancy. Some people may choose it as it achieves sexual satisfaction without actual sex, possibly seeing it as an alternative to casual sex.

The techniques of mutual masturbation resemble those of simple masturbation, with the exception another person is involved. The range of participation can be as simple as two people masturbating in the same room at the same time without touching one another to a group of people all stimulating one another. In the case of two people, one may stimulate their partner, each partner may stimulate the other, or one may stimulate both themselves and their partner.

Mutual masturbation may or may not result in one or more of the partners achieving orgasm. If no bodily fluids are exchanged (as is common), mutual masturbation is a form of safer sex, and greatly reduces the risk of transmission of sexual diseases. As such it was encouraged among gay men by some safer sex organisations in the wake of the AIDS scare of the 1980s, as an alternative to anal or oral sex.

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Mutual masturbation may also be carried out with or without removing clothes, for instance by rubbing against one another. This is also known as frottage. Two people engaging in clothed frottage in a manner that simulates intercourse is known in the vernacular as dry humping. This form of consensual frottage should not be confused with the non-consentual frotteurism, which is considered a paraphilia.

A modern dancing style which involves partners rubbing their clothed bodies on one another is called "grinding," "freaking," or "Sandwich dancing" and in Caribbean cultures where it is more accepted, it is referred to as "wining" or "flexing", known in the Spanish speaking territories as "perrear" ("dogging"). Much of West Indian music (esp. Jamaican Dancehall and Trinidad and Tobago's Soca, pronounced SOH-cah) makes frequent references to this style of dance. There are even dance competitions sensibilities, there may also be a cash prize for the victor, from a collected "kitty".

An alternate form of this is called a line jerk, where two or more men are standing in a line masturbating each other, either facing one another or not facing one another.

An alternative to a line jerk is called a "reach around", where two men stand in line front to back and the man at the back reaches round to masturbate the other while "grinding" his own erection into the vertical crease of the other's buttocks as a prelude or alternative to anal penetration.

A "dog pile" is similar to an orgy, except the mass of people on the floor (single sex or both sexes) engage only in manual stimulation, rather than penetration. This should not be confused with a "puppy pile," a non-sexual cluster of people that may occur at a non-sexual "cuddle party."

In the modern era, with the popularity of webcams, it could be argued that two people watching each other masturbate via an Internet link is another form of mutual masturbation. It has been suggested that in the future, a more interactive form of mutual masturbation via Internet link may be possible using teledildonics, a specialized application of the technology known as haptics.

The terms "mutual masturbation" and "circle jerk" are sometimes used as vulgar metaphors. They can refer to a situation, often in the workplace, politics or academia, where people are stroking each other's ego without producing anything of value.

The term is sometimes used as a dysphemism for an oligarchy, or a system believed to be under oligarchical rule.

The lyrics of Dazz Band's song Joystick are suggestive of mutual masturbation.

The band Circle Jerks were named after a slang phrase for mutual male masturbation.

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