Masturbation Month Activity

Masturbate-a-Thon 2006 will be held on
Saturday, May 27th!

The Center for Sex and Culture's National Masturbation Month plans include Masturbate-a-Thon San Francisco. Founder and director Carol Queen, Ph.D. announced that the Center for Sex & Culture will hold its fifth annual fund-raising Masturbate-a-Thon on May 27, 2006, doors open at 5:00 for regular participants and at 4:00 for those attempting to set this year's time record. The event is one of many National Masturbation Month events planned around the US and Canada, including many sponsored Masturbate-a-Thons. Unlike most of the others, the CSC's Masturbate-a-Thon is a live group event at which participants will raise funds by getting others to sponsor them for each minute they masturbate. CSC will hold the event at 398 11th Street in San Francisco.

Founded by San Francisco's own women-owned, worker-owned sex toy company Good Vibrations in the wake of then-Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders' firing for stating that masturbation "is perhaps something that should be taught" about when discussing youth sexual options, National Masturbation Month seeks to raise awareness and dispel shame about this most common and natural of sexual activities. Good Vibrations and its sister sex toy stores and sex-positive nonprofits have been celebrating National Masturbation Month since 1995. Information about Good Vibrations' role in NMM will be available on GV's website, www.goodvibes.com, in early May. The Masturbate-a-Thon became the centerpiece of National Masturbation Month when it was added to Good Vibrations' slate of activities a few years later. GV sponsors the Masturbate-a-Thon as a private event, as most masturbation is; the Center for Sex & Culture followed the lead of a private organization in Salt Lake City in celebrating it as a group activity.

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