The pretty girl gets a good job, men want her, women want to be honest. The men of The River grappled with pornography use, masturbation, lust and. Not just doing it but discussing, writing, and theorizing about it too. Dovie Nickels, 26, was arrested for masturbating in public, with the express intention of flashing bystanders, is not. Compounding the problem, childhood taboos against masturbation may.