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Double-standards don't always work. You can't always take "one side" of something and hot-swap the people involved to see if it would work the same way, then call bullshit when it doesn't.
Example:
Two people show up somewhere wearing the same shirt. The stereotypical guy response is instant friend status and mutual beer-buying. The stereotypical female response is to get pissed or petty or insecure (and yes it happens, if you haven't been witness, it can be really bad actually- and note I said stereotype).
The point is, many of you are yelling because you make claim to some magically universal infallibility of logic that just because something holds true for one sex, it must be exactly the same for the other, otherwise it's a "double standard". Not all inequities of human behavior are because something is perceptually "acceptable" for one group and "unacceptable" for another.
Some things are different because they just are, and different people react differently to things.
For some people, masturbation is just about getting off to the thought of bumping uglies, and nothing more. For others, masturbation is just as emotionally driven as making love to their SO.
Also, there's a huge difference between thinking about having sex with your SO's friends, and actually doing something (them) about it.
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