If you are among those who believe that masturbation is enjoyable, natural and healthy, then join those of like minds masturbating for the Masturbate-a-thon on May 28, 2008 in San Francisco. This event is a fundraiser for the Center for Sex and Culture which is dedicated to supporting sex education and sexual safety.

An event for men and women, this year celebrates the Masturbate-a-thon’s tenth year. What started out as a small-scale pledge drive has blossomed into an event that attracts people from around the world. The event was an instant success and continues to be popular. According to the Masturbate-a-thon website,

It started as a weekend long pledge drive that operated on the honor system. Participants got their pals to promise money for each minute of masturbation. As Carol Queen said then, “who’d want to cheat? It’s so much fun to masturbate, it’s not like you won’t do it and then say you did.” In the first year the Masturbate-a-thon raised $8,500 for good causes. In the years that the Masturbate-a-thon operated as a do-it-yourself event it raised over $25,000, distributed 66,000 pledge forms, had 1700 pledged participants from six different countries.

Does it all sound exciting? Think you want to fly up to San Fran and try your hand, metaphorically speaking? Well, if you plan to do any record-breaking, here’s what you’re up against

Time Records:

• Female: 6 h, 30 min (Norine Dworkin, San Francisco, 2004)
• Male: 8 h, 30 min (San Francisco, 2006)
• Trans/Genderqueer: Yet to be set!

Most Orgasms:

• Female: 49 (London, 2006)
• Male: 6 (London, 2006)
• Trans/Genderqueer: Yet to be set!

The good news is you don’t have to break any records. Just go to have fun, learn and love more about yourself, and support a super creative way to support a very good cause.

For more information, visit the Masturbate-a-thon website at http://www.masturbate-a-thon.com/.

There is an interesting discussion on Yahoo Answers that explores the ways in which male masturbation is characterized (in contrast to female masturbation) and the Victorian-style repression that is, unfortunately, still part of the age-old controversy.

Listen, folks, every man I know masturbates or has masturbated at one time or another. It is a healthy and natural part of human sexuality. Here’s another shocker. Women masturbate too for the same healthy, natural reasons born of the same human need. In fact, even in prehistoric places where masturbation is punishable by death, people masturbate anyway so it never ceases to amaze me that there is still so much controversy and shame.

For my part, people who view masturbation as ’sinful’ or ‘base’ are usually sexually repressed, uptight, unhappy people. Why? Because at the core, to take such a rigid position (pun intended) inherently denies that human beings have the right to pleasure themselves. After all, we pleasure ourselves in so many other ways like eating our favorite foods, going to see a good movie, taking a walk in the park. How is masturbation any different at its core? We can look at our primate cousins for empirical proof that masturbation has been around for a hell of a lot longer than our limited and relatively new capacity for language that has allowed us to label it ‘bad’

Check out the full post on Yahoo Answers.

This article about the female orgasm has many salient points about the male orgasm. Somehow, we fool ourselves in believing that other people automatically know what to do with us in bed, but that is almost never the case. There is possibly no one thing that could considered ‘universally stimulating’.

As the author points out in the Daily Princeton, one of the first things one must get comfortable with is exploring one’s body to find out what feels good and what doesn’t. Believe me, just because something looks pleasurable in a porn video doesn’t mean that is so. We are all unique, and likewise have different things that make us stimulated.

The next thing the author points out is the importance of communicating with your partner. She states

Once you have discovered your [penis], try and figure out how you like to be touched. Your partner can help you with this; just be sure to keep an open dialogue going. Do not be afraid to say such specific things as “You’re not in the right place,” and then show your partner where the right place for you is. While being stimulated, give direction such as “harder,” “softer,” “faster” or “slower.” Don’t be afraid to tell your partner when he or she has lost the right place, and then help him or her get back on track.

The other plus to the communication approach is that your partner will be more likely to communicate what turns him or her on giving you more confidence in how to make them aroused.

Read the full post at The Daily Princetonian.

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Actually, the title should read, “what’s your Morning Glory story”. For those of you who do not know, Morning Glory is slang for the erection men sometimes get in the morning and masturbate to relieve themselves. Sometimes funny, sometimes educational, sometimes enlightening, sometimes a cautionary tale, surely every wanker has a masturbation story to tell. Perhaps it is about the first time, or the worst time, or the time that was sheer genius…whatever the case, we invite you to share your best masturbation story here.