It was only a couple of years ago that the idea of workplace wankbreaks was being touted in some fairly mainstream places. Not just for erotica writers, either: OK, for some of is it’s not so much about taking a break for a wank at work as it is the case that wanking is work, particularly if you’re a sex toy tester.
Most people, these days, are willing to acknowledge that masturbation is pretty good for you: it relieves stress, makes you happy, doesn’t rot your teeth or transmit any diseases and all the rest of it. But it’s likely to be a while yet before every union gets behind demanding employees have the right to wank at work, especially if you get silly sods like the current headline-hitter, who appears to have not just had a wank at work but filmed himself and uploaded the results with enough #hashtags to make both him and his employer identifiable. Folx, this is dumb: don’t do it. As with a lot of things associated with our sex lives and our authentic selves, boundaries matter. Some careers don’t really lend themselves to erotic thoughts during working hours as it is: your job may require you to be intensely focussed on whatever you’re doing, or you may have to deal with sensitive situations and people in acute states of distress. You might well need the cathartic release of some intense kink after a difficult day, or some languid lovemaking to take your mind off your professional problems, and that’s entirely up to you.
There’s also the effect on co-workers to consider. If you like to scream and howl and drum your feet on the floor when your orgasm reaches a peak, then this can be disconcerting for any colleague within earshot.If your self-loving sessions tend to be prolonged beyond a few minutes, other people may resent having to cover for you while you take your wankbreak, especially if they also fancy having a quick wank at work.
Of course, it’s not just solo sex that can cross people’s minds during office hours. It seems to be a fairly common thing for people to date colleagues, and for relationships to start up in the workplace – and this can cause trouble, as well. Some employers expressly forbid staff to date one another, and they may have a point: there are all sorts of potential problems that can ensue if people bonk their bosses – or their underlings. And if the office affair all goes horribly wrong, then that can be a nuisance for colleagues who might find themselves caught between two people who now hate each other and refuse to co-operate professionally.
Getting on the job while you’re on the job remains a powerful fantasy, of course, even for those whose fellow wage-slaves are generally unappealing: most of us who have worked with other people will have experienced at least one colleague-crush despite the fact that ‘don’t poke the payroll’ is about the best piece of career advice I ever ignored, to my cost. This fine anthology from SinCyr Publishing is enough to fuel many a work-related erotic fantasy.
People are,on the whole going to continue having sexual thoughts and quite probably engaging in sexual acts while they are 
supposedly getting on with their work. It isn’t necessarily unethical to sneak off for a quick one in the toilets or the stockroom, whether that’s by yourself or with the hot mess from HR.But you do need to make sure that your erotic antics aren’t causing your workmates inconvenience, distress or embarrassment. As with any kind of semi-publlic sexy fun or kinkyfuckery, you need to be reasonably discreet. If you want still or moving pictures as a souvenir, keep anything remotely identifiable out of shot. Wipe up after yourself if there’s any mess and don’t chuck used condoms out of the window so they can land on someone’s head and draw complaints to your company’s reception destk. Remember that, as with a lot of things, the bad consequences don’t necessarily come from doing the stuff you shouldn’t be doing – they come when you’re stupid or careless enough to let yourself get caught.
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