[wordup] Fourth Annual Masturbate-A-Thon

[Adam Shand]

Via: Keiran Haggerty <keiran at spack.org>
From: http://www.toronto.com/profile/672037/

Fourth Annual Masturbate-A-Thon 

Touch yourself for a good cause.

Where:   Come As You Are
701 Queen St. W.
Toronto,  ON
When:   Saturday, May 18
Sunday, May 19

Price:   Call (416) 504-7934 for more information.

Guys do it, nice girls do it so say it out loud: Masturbation. Come As
You Are encourages everyone to touch themselves for a good cause. The
fourth annual Masturbate-A-Thon is a weekend of solo sex to raise funds
for women's health organizations. Ask your friends and neighbours to
sponsor you for every minute of masturbation during May 18-19. The event
is held on the honour system and you decide how long you want to
masturbate in the privacy of your own home. This year's charity is the
Hassle Free Women's Clinic.

The top fundraisers in each category win prizes. If you use vibrators,
watch porn or plug it in, enter in the "Plug in" section and win $100
off your May electricity bill. If you prefer batteries, enter the "Turn
On" category and win $100 in batteries; and if you're a manual type of
person, there is the "Lube Up" category where you can win $100 of
lubricant. If you do a little (or a lot) of everything, try the "Get
Off" category and try to win a $100 gift certificate to Come As You Are.

Why Masturbate?

* It feels good.
* It helps maintain good pelvic blood flow and strong pc muscles.
* It's safe sex.
* You don't have to worry if your partner came.
* You learn what's best for your pleasure by masturbating, which in turn
  improves your sex life with your partners.
* It's great for stress relief and can help you sleep.
* Interesting Masturbatory Facts:

According to the latest issue of Flare magazine, in the 1800s,
physicians induced orgasm, considering it a valid treatment for hysteria
because they thought the condition was triggered by sexual deprivation.
Eventually, a doctor invented the vibrator so women could "treat"
themselves at home. Yet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
western doctors blamed masturbation for everything from mental illness
and tuberculosis to loose morality. Treatments varied from spiked rings
to prevent nocturnal erections in boys and clitoridectomies (removal of
the clitoris) for women. An orgasm is considered a good way to
temporarily relieve menstrual cramps in women and stimulate the prostate
gland in men, reducing the incidence of prostate infections.

The Hassle Free Women's Clinic is a community-based clinic providing
medical and counseling services in all areas of sexual health. It is the
largest anonymous HIV test site in Canada, and one of the country's
busiest sexually transmitted disease clinics. The clinic provides
services related to all facets of women's sexual and reproductive
health.