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Or is this a wank room?

226 replies

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 16:19

Was browsing Rightmove and found what might be a wank room.
Tell me what you think!

YANBU- It’s a wank room
YABU- It’s purely innocent vintage decor in a bathroom

OP posts:
mimiku · 12/01/2024 18:07

JustWhatWeDontNeed · 12/01/2024 16:41

Confused surely anyone wanting to fap one out would just watch porn on their phone, rather than fantasise over their toilet wallpaper.

well exactly 😅😂

oakleaffy · 12/01/2024 18:09

JustWhatWeDontNeed · 12/01/2024 16:41

Confused surely anyone wanting to fap one out would just watch porn on their phone, rather than fantasise over their toilet wallpaper.

Yes- I imagine things have moved on a LOT since the days of “Razzle” and “ Playboy”
It’s all online now.

@SummerFeverVenice I too found lads mags while babysitting- but hidden under beds in spare room.
( I used to stay overnight sometimes)
As a teenager it was de rigeur to look under the beds.

Never saw mags in the loos of people’s houses though.

tachetastic · 12/01/2024 18:11

Iamacatslave · 12/01/2024 16:29

Could we please see a photo of the garden…

Are you a potential buyer, or do you know the house?

Is it yours????? 😉

JanglingJack · 12/01/2024 18:11

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 16:33

But of course!

How disappointing.

If you were babysitting in the era of lads mags in the bathroom, maybe you want to question what affect they had on you.

I grew up in that era and unless it was Nuts or similar, it's very doubtful that you were babysitting for a couple that had wank mags in the bathroom. Loaded/Maxim maybe?

Bloom15 · 12/01/2024 18:14

GU10 · 12/01/2024 17:11

No. Downstairs loos often have OTT wallpaper. It's the one room you can go a bit weird in in my opinion.

Certainly not my taste but can imagine my mother in law thinking that paper is amazing.

Not the wall but a house we rented had pebbles as the floor . I am still annoyed about awful it was over 5 years later 😂

tachetastic · 12/01/2024 18:14

ComtesseDeSpair · 12/01/2024 16:29

It looks like the sort of bathroom owned by a woman who regularly posts that meme of Marilyn Monroe with the quote “If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best” on FB.

Edited

I don't think a woman owns this house.

And I don't think it's a wank room.

This feels like a really bad online version of Through the Keyhole.

"So David, who would live in a house like this???"

BobbyBiscuits · 12/01/2024 18:14

I had a family friend (when I was about 12-13) who had full on gay porno pics all over the walls of his (only) bathroom- they were in black and white but you saw erect cock in several of them. I guess it would have been grimmer if it was a load of pictures of fannies from razzle. Not sure why though, both seem bizarre af...lol.

Justwrong68 · 12/01/2024 18:19

Estate agents will say anything to sell a property

Finbrek · 12/01/2024 18:19

Illpickthatup · 12/01/2024 17:10

Depends on whether the livingroom has a "live, laugh, love" decal on the wall.

"wank, cry, fall asleep on the sofa covered in Dorito crumbs", surely?

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 12/01/2024 18:20

Justwrong68 · 12/01/2024 18:19

Estate agents will say anything to sell a property

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

tachetastic · 12/01/2024 18:21

In the interests of full disclosure, can I confess that in our family bathroom we had a five foot by four foot print of Barbra Streisand in the bath from the movie "What's Up Doc" in a gilt frame.

That is until my nine year old son asked if we could take the creepy lady down. 😂

Or is this a wank room?
Nonomono · 12/01/2024 18:22

This was definitely decorated by a woman.

Either there is no man in the house or he doesn’t get a say/doesn’t mind how the wife decorates.

Somepeoplearesnippy · 12/01/2024 18:22

A local restaurant has this wallpaper in the ladies. I've never been tempted to linger in there pleasuring myself. IDK if they have the same in the men's loo. DH has never seemed to spend much time in there - perhaps they have a male star up there instead.

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 18:30

JanglingJack · 12/01/2024 18:11

How disappointing.

If you were babysitting in the era of lads mags in the bathroom, maybe you want to question what affect they had on you.

I grew up in that era and unless it was Nuts or similar, it's very doubtful that you were babysitting for a couple that had wank mags in the bathroom. Loaded/Maxim maybe?

I am questioning it now after this thread because the photo reminded me of it and I know now that my reaction to that room of 🤮 is not normal.

I mostly babysat for visiting American military as I grew up near one of the airbases and our village was three quarters American families. They had Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler.

I was sheltered at that age- 15/16.

OP posts:
GalileoHumpkins · 12/01/2024 18:31

It's a bit flamboyant for a rental, they're usually more beige.

wizzywig · 12/01/2024 18:32

I only ever see it in hairdressers or beauticians

AgathaX · 12/01/2024 18:35

I think you must have babysat for some very dubious types. What were your parents thinking of letting you sit for them?

LubaLuca · Today 17:12
Or 80s Eternal Beau people. I'm looking at you, Auntie Beryl. She's not a sex person

Bit judgmental. I hope Auntie Beryl is swinging from all the chandeliers.

BingoMarieHeeler · 12/01/2024 18:37

Trying to imagine a wallpaper with Taylor swift’s face all over….. or any celeb’s… or any human…… or any (photographed) animal……….. just utterly utterly bizarre. Don’t get the Marilyn-as-decor vibe at all!

Lifeomars · 12/01/2024 18:41

What a bizzare thing to say, That wallpaper is not to my taste but how you have managed to make the mental leap from images of an iconic film star to a frankly weird take on bathroom decor is strange.

Someonepaintmyhouseplease · 12/01/2024 18:47

A wank room 😂

An entire room dedicated to wanking

swimsong · 12/01/2024 18:51

SummerFeverVenice · 12/01/2024 16:56

They were in different places. One had a stack on the tank of the toilet. One had a magazine holder - the wood kind that sits on the floor- right next to the loo. Another one had a magazine holder screwed to the wall. I don’t recall any being hidden.

There would be a Country Life or Forbes, but behind that…lads mags.

By Lad's mags do you mean 90s titles like Loaded, FHM, Zoo & Nuts?
They were always more men's lifestyle than wank fodder - just a bit edgy.
Or maybe you mean the more explicit newsagent 'top shelf' titles like Penthouse, Club International, 40 plus, Reader's Wives etc?

Tinytigertail · 12/01/2024 18:55

LubaLuca · 12/01/2024 16:32

I don't think that meets the minimum legal dimensions for a wank room.

GrinGrinGrin

tachetastic · 12/01/2024 18:57

Someonepaintmyhouseplease · 12/01/2024 18:47

A wank room 😂

An entire room dedicated to wanking

There are definitely those in some men's houses.

Possibly more than one.

Justanothercatlady · 12/01/2024 19:01

I mostly babysat for visiting American military as I grew up near one of the airbases and our village was three quarters American families. They had Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler.

I was sheltered at that age- 15/16.

Really, OP? It’s sounds like your flights of fantasy are running away with you a bit here - it’s quite a leap from Hustler traumatising you when you see Marlyin Munroe now. It’s takes some snooping to find those magazines in the home!

Emotionalsupportviper · 12/01/2024 19:05

EvilElsa · 12/01/2024 16:25

What is a wank room?! Never heard that term in my life -I assume a room to masturbate in? Do people not just do that anywhere they fancy in their own home?
It's bloody awful whatever it is.

Not just me, then.

I've never heard that term before.

And hope to never hear it again.