taboo attraction?

[Arnold Zwicky]

benjamin barrett, following up on larry horn on "hand job":
 >I would take this to mean a frivolous action or monkeying around, not a
 >con job...

like b.b., i suspect this is yet another extension from the notion
of masturbation to the wider notion of 'pointless, unproductive
enterprises'.  as in earlier postings on "mental masturbation".

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)