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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Are you being deliberately dense?

From Google - entry #1

"The Who's "Pictures of Lily" is probably the most famous song about masturbation ever, bar the Vapors' "Turning Japanese" or "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper. And then there's The Kinks' not-so-famous "National Health", and Fleetwood Mac's "Rattle Snake Shake" but anyway...

The song parallels a young boy's "problem", and how his dad helps him solve it by hanging pictures up on his wall of a beautiful woman. However, he "falls in love" with her, and, to his grief, discovers she's dead. Or so the British censors thought...

Pete Townshend: "Really it's just a look back to that period in every boy's life when he has pin ups.... Merely a ditty about masturbation and the importance of it to a young man. I was really diggin' at my folks who, when catching me at it, would talk in loud voices in the corridor outside my room. 'Why can't he go with girls like other boys?'"

John Entwistle: "It's all about wanking."

The beauty of this little ditty is that, despite its taboo nature, its sugary melody and vocals covered up that fact.

I have to disagree. The most famous song about wanking has to be "Every Sperm is Sacred."

Tax(God gets quite irate)wonk