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The Centre For Sex And Culture is set to hold its annual Masturbate-A-Thon in San Fransico at 1519 Mission Street on Sunday 25th of May as part of Masturbation Month which is held in various countries all over the globe. CSC is a non profit organisation which is dedicated to promoting sexual freedom and safety. It offers a variety of classes and workshops which promote a sex positive reality.
The doors will be open at 9am for those attempting to break the record or 3pm for other participants. There are designated areas where you can take part solo or in same sex groups and if you feel up to it you can go public in the webcast area http://www.masturbate-a-thon.com/liveFeeds.php The main area will be mixed sex (male and female).
Last year the longest time spent masturbating was presented to a man who spent 8 hours and 40 minutes entertaining himself. Wow! I bet he was more than a little sore and would make a great candidate for CBT. The women’s record was set in 2004 the participant managed a staggering 6 hours and 30 minutes. Now, if I was her subbie I‘d be taking suba lessons. The distance award which started last year is set at 36 inches.
If you wish to participate in the event there is a registration fee of $20 and the pledge sheet is available to download here. The great thing about this event is that you can take part at home if you wish to. Right, now I better go and get some practice in… :twisted:
But if you wish to read the official press release here you go http://www.masturbate-a-thon.com/PressRelease.php
The Center for Sex and Culture's National Masturbation Month plans once again include a Live Masturbate-a-Thon in San Francisco. the Center for Sex & Culture will hold the seventh annual fund-raising live Masturbate-a-Thon on May 25, 2008. Doors will open at 12:00 for those attempting to set this year's time record, and at 3:00 pm for regular participants who do not anticipate needing a full nine hours for their participation. The event is one of many National Masturbation Month events planned around the US, Canada, and Europe. 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 the length of time they masturbate. CSC will hold the event at 1519 Mission Street in San Francisco. Founded by San Francisco's women-focused 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. 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 has historically sponsored 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.The Center for Sex & Culture Masturbate-a-Thons typically raise close to $5000.00 from participants and their sponsors, who pledge any amount they choose per minute
(or hour) to support their friends' efforts. At last year’s event the Longest Time Spent Masturbating award was presented to a man who spent 8 hours and 40 minutes engaged in self-pleasuring; the women’s record has been unbroken since 2004, when a female participant masturbated for 6 hours and 30 minutes. The event’s Most Orgasms Award is held by a woman who came 49 times during the Live London Masturbate-a-Thon in 2006 (filmed for British Channel 4). The distance record, begun last year, is currently 36 inches, held by a male, though in that competition a woman ejaculator came in at second place. The Most Funds Raised Award hovers near $1000.Who participates in a live Masturbate-a-Thon? Not surprisingly, representatives from various San Francisco sexual subcultures attend to "come for a cause"; the Center for Sex & Culture is arranging this year's co-sponsorships among gay men's clubs, erotica producers, and other sexual adventurers. Separate areas of the Masturbate-a-Thon site will be set aside for men who would prefer to masturbate together and women who want a single-sex space, with the rest of the room a mixed-gender venue. Only part of the room will be set aside for the webcast cameras, so less exhibitionistic attendees can participate somewhat more privately. Participants have also been drawn to past Masturbate-a-Thons to publicly acknowledge the importance of solo sexuality in their lives, so not everyone handing in a pledge sheet will be a committed erotic adventurer; many will never have done anything like this before. Tony, a 2004 first-time participant from Los Angeles, emailed CSC afterwards to thank them for setting up a space where he could feel comfortable and let go of the shame that had been instilled in him about masturbation. CSC director Queen comments: "People like Tony are everywhere; most of us engage in self-pleasure, but there is so little support for doing so that it can become a source of distress. This is exactly why National Masturbation Month is needed; people need to understand that self-stimulation is common, pleasurable, healthful, and nothing to worry about."Word of the Masturbate-a-Thon has spread around the globe. Online participants have come from as far away as Europe,Asia, and Australia; in past years press hits have come in from South Africa, France, Brazil, Ireland, India, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Pledge sheets and co-sponsorship links will be available soon at the Masturbate-a-Thon's website. Participants can download a pledge sheet and begin collecting pledges right away; after the Masturbate-a-Thon they will let their pledgers know how much to remit. Pledges can be paid by check and sent to CSC; they can also be remitted via the event website. All monies raised will be used to support the Center for Sex & Culture's educational and sex-positive cultural programming. People who wish to participate but who can't find pledgers may pledge themselves at any amount plus pay a $20.00 entry fee. Supporters who live too far away to attend can tune in to the webcast on May 25; interested parties who prefer a private Masturbate-a-Thon can download the pledge sheet, stay home and participate, and remit by mail.The Masturbate-a-Thon’s official website is www.masturbate-a-thon.com. Good
Vibrations's site is www.goodvibes.com.
Visitors to these sites and Masturbate-a-Thon participants should be 18 and over only.The Center for Sex & Culture (CSC) received its nonprofit status in late 2002 and was declared "Best Emerging Sex Nonprofit" in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay issue in June 2004. It is open by appointment and for events. (It does not yet maintain regular drop-in hours.) The Center for Sex & Culture is a volunteer organization that subsists on donations from the public, including donations of books, art, videos, archival materials, etc. CSC's mailing address (where donations can be sent) is 2215-R Market Street, #455, San Francisco, CA 94114. Website donations can be made at www.sexandculture.org. Telephone: (415)
255-1155
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