Masturbation can be openly talked about in an intellectual or personal sense without any sort of personal anxiety on the part of anyone involved in the conversation. All belief that this is an impossibility originates from assumptions based on prudery, as one can disprove ideas to the contrary with sheer logicality or even just one actual example. In spite of the seeming popularity of the practice in private, relatively few people seem willing to discuss the topic openly except when it comes to jokes or largely limited statements made among friends, perhaps out of fear of social disapproval or out of shame.
Talking about masturbation does not have to be this restricted or subjectively shameful, though. Openness about masturbation both frees one to enjoy it all the more while undermining some of prudery's influence across communities. This can be recognized on not just an individual level, but on a social level as well. When one person decides to discuss masturbation seriously as the important issue that it is, others might be emboldened to talk or not talk about it based on factors other than cultural pressures, whether or not they actually engage in masturbation at all.
Masturbation can be discussed without a sense of prudery or social shame. So, too, can masturbating to someone, even if the person conversing about self-pleasuring is also a person to whom one masturbates. This is true even when the one hearing about how they are masturbated to is not a significant other, but a friend of the opposite gender and not a dating partner. Moreover, this would not make the other person uncomfortable by default, and it would certainly not be guaranteed to make women in particular uncomfortable as gender stereotype proponents would probably assert.
Comfort with their own bodies, a rationalistic intellectual understanding of sexuality, emotional self-awareness, and intimacy between the friends are the key factors that will determine how willing someone is to discuss their masturbation habits and preferences with anyone at all, much less friends of the opposite gender. However, rational, open people can discuss masturbation in a natural way without being prudish, fallacious, or sexist (choosing to speak about masturbation with people of the same gender but intentionally avoiding the subject with the opposite gender is sexist) altogether. The assumptions that such a thing is worthy of discouragement are just that: petty assumptions.
It is always the case that assumptions are asinine and damaging, even if only damaging to an individual's embrace of knowable reality, and assumptions about sexuality as a whole abd masturbation in particular lead to detrimental ideas about morality, oneself, and other affiliated things. Christian rationalists who either do or do not enjoy masturbation can recognize the benefits for discussing masturbation in an intellectual and personal sense without anxiety, fear, or discomfort. Masturbation is a Biblically valid way to express, develop, and explore one's sexuality with or without the aid of external stimuli or thoughts about external stimuli like select opposite gender friends or coworkers [1], and nothing about it needs to be aggressively hidden from friends.
[1]. https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2018/09/masturbating-to-mental-imagery.html
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