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Thursday Aug 24, 2006
Sponsored wanking
If you work for a charity, what's the most risqué fundraising activity they've been involved with? A cheeky viral? A provocative poster?
How about being the beneficiary of a masturbate-a-thon? Think that would go down well with the trustees?
Marie Stopes were brave enough to take it on.
"As a global family planning agency, at its core Marie Stopes International is concerned with promoting the individual's right to enjoy sex safely and, should they choose, without the risk of conception," said Marie Stopes International's Tony Kerridge.
"In our work all over the world, every day we see the consequences of fertile orgasms, in the form of unplanned pregnancies, unsafe abortions, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS. So it is absolutely right that we associate ourselves with this initiative to promote this risk and consequence free method of sexual expression."
Who could argue with that? Well, Maddy Coy from Eaves Housing for Women, for one. In Third Sector she argues that "events such as this don't exist in isolation, but are part of an exploitative sex industry" and, "jerking off for money is akin to prostitution."
I'm surprised that there hasn't been more media coverage of this, with such rich pickings of titillation and mock outrage. Perhaps there'll be more when the event airs on Channel 4 next month as part of (ahem) Wank Week. Although, if the account of the event in The Observer is accurate I don't think I'll be setting my video.
The participants, who had to be over 18, were almost exclusively male, and included gay men, transvestites with body piercings, an artist's model and a porn actress hired by the Daily Sport. They waited patiently on a cramped staircase before being invited up to a photographic studio which had been decorated with Moroccan-style lanterns and cushions, red and gold drapes, ornate mirrors and erotic pictures and statuettes. Lubricants and pornographic magazines were provided, as were bottles of water, boxes of Capri-Sun and packets of Cadburys shortcake biscuits.
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Posted by SAVEC on August 10, 2008 at 10:42 PM GMT+00:00 #