Yet these expressions are rarely used in everyday conversation, and it seems most languages lack any established terminology for women masturbating (apart from in Sweden, where, as usual, they are ahead of the game and held a competition in 2015 to invent a new word for it – the result ‘klittra’, a combination of the Swedish words for glitter and clitoris, has received a somewhat mixed reception).

Whilst ‘having a wank’ is something we commonly hear men discussing, it is also something we see alluded to in popular culture all the time, be it music, TV or film. In contrast, female masturbation, a largely undiscussed taboo, has rarely been depicted in popular culture, and when it has been, it is presented as either an exceptional event or a faked experience (think the When Harry met Sally orgasm scene). Authentic female pleasure, presented as an ordinary, even unremarkable event, has been almost entirely absent from our screens.

Whether it is ‘Big Boo’ masturbating with a home-made screwdriver dildo in Orange Is The New Black (2015), or Phoebe Waller-Bridge touching herself to a Barak Obama speech in Fleabag (2016), women getting themselves off is becoming gradually more normalised on our screens. Yet it is recent Netflix shows Sex Education and Big Mouth that stand out as the most recent examples of this, both dedicating whole episodes to explorations of female sexual pleasure in a refreshingly honest way.

This is not a classic scene of seductive female masturbation that we have seen before; instead, clad in her stripy unicorn Monday knickers, Aimee contorts herself into impossible positions, grunting and groaning while she masturbates with anything from a cushion on her windowsill to her hairdryer, until she finally flops down exhausted on her bed, announcing, “I want a crumpet”.

Whilst we’ve previously seen Aimee having loud, melodramatic, porn star sex with her first boyfriend Adam, and seemingly reaching climax, her new boyfriend actually asks her what she wants. This prompts main character Otis, as the school’s self-appointed sex advisor, to encourage this vigorous episode of self-exploration. Following this, Aimee feels able to tell her boyfriend exactly what she wants, where, at what speed and for how long, sending a strong message to young female viewers that masturbation is key to knowing what you want sexually.