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While most of us are familiar with the standard lunch and/or smoke break, there’s an entirely other – much kinder, more satisfying – pause to the day that people in workplaces around the world have apparently been taking.

According to recent polls conducted by Time Out New York and Glamour, respectively, 39 per cent of men revealed that they masturbate at work, while 31 per cent of women said they, too, take to self-pleasure in the workplace – and these are just the people willing to admit it.

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It’s tough pulling off a standard 9-5, or any daily work routine, without resorting to an intermission here or there. We take lunch breaks to sustain ourselves, we take bathroom breaks to relieve ourselves, and we daydream throughout the day just to break up the monotony of sitting in the same place, week after week.

But sometimes, talking about the weather between cubicles with your co-worker just doesn’t cut it. Swapping Game of Thrones spoilers by the water cooler isn’t satisfying enough. And chatting with the office gossip between bathroom stalls leaves something to be desired.