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BuzzFeed is trying to normalize workplace masturbation after writer and CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was caught pleasuring himself during a Zoom video call with colleagues.

After Toobin trended on Twitter, BuzzFeed criticized those who shamed him. They proposed normalizing workplace Zoom masturbation amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

BuzzFeed notes that workplace masturbation is already a thing.

In an article, titled “Jeffrey Toobin Can’t Be The Only Person Masturbating On Work Zoom Calls,” BuzzFeed writes: “You’re going to tell me you’ve never taken a quick three minutes midday to crank your hog? To mash your meat? To butter your own muffin? There’s so little joy left in our lives; are we not at least owed the time to toot our own horns?”

BuzzFeed news reporter and senior culture writer Scaachi Koul defended Toobin by comparing masturbating to other mundane activities employees do to pass the time when working from home.

“[E]ndless snacks without judgment, cigarette breaks at your leisure, Real Housewives on all goddamn day,” Koul wrote, before adding, “Haven’t we all done something on a work call that, in normal circumstances, we’d never do during a meeting?

“Let he without sin cast the first stone; the benefit of working from home is in the comfort to do whatever you want.”

A few liberal companies already provide private spaces for male employees to give themselves a hand in a supportive, uplifting environment. One boss said normalizing workplace masturbation has cut down on incidents of sexual harassment on the job.

But not everyone agrees with normalizing masturbation during Zoom video calls.

“[W]hat the ever living f*** Buzzfeed,” tweeted reporter Tim Pool, “you think its normal for people to masturbate during work calls?? is this what journalists do? is this normal for them??”