April, Come She Will

My mind is in a thousand places today as I try to wrap things up for work and get ready to leave tomorrow on a short, driving vacation ("Gasoline is how much per gallon?"). And naturally, the timing of when things happen is not working out in the least. Why is it that everyone else interprets their deadline for getting work to me as dinnertime, after I’ve presumably stopped working for the day, while I normally try to get them things by midday when they still have time to look at it? You don’t have an answer. Neither do I.

May is almost here and you should know by now that May is National Masturbation Month. Which means… it’s almost time for Masturbate-A-Thon 2008. Sponsored by the Center for Sex and Culture, this year’s event takes place in San Francisco on Sunday, May 25. They welcome both participants and spectators, in person and virtual. Spectators pay to watch. Participants masturbate and get sponsored by friends, etc., willing to “pay by the minute.” Money raised goes toward supporting the Center’s educational and sex-positive cultural programming. I thought these stats about last year’s event were interesting:

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.

You might also want to check out their Wank Blog. I’m not into Twitter, but I am very amused at their suggestion that people share “twittergasms” with the world. That is, since Twitter tells your every move, why not share JOSW ("Jacking off. So what?") or ICSW ("I came. So what?") in real-time? Again, I don’t get Twitter. But, if I did and I commonly told folks that I was doing such mundane things as folding laundry or going shopping for socks, then I’d be all over this.

At least in May I would.

Comments:

• Of course, there’s also the news this week, reaffirming studies from a few years ago that said male masturbation may help prevent prostate cancer.

  Posted by Prospero  on  04/28/08  at  11:42 PM
  
  
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