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Dear How to Do It,

My wife and I are joining her parents for Thanksgiving. The trouble is that we are spending the week leading up to the holiday staying at their house, and my wife has a strict rule.

She insists that we never have sex while we are guests in their home or they are guests in ours. As ridiculous as I think that is, I am willing to go along with it. However, my wife has now decided it even extends to self-pleasure. She has forbidden me from taking a Fleshlight and has gone so far as to say I’m not even allowed to jerk off! She’s completely out of line here, right?

—Expected to Spend a Week Solo

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