SKIRMISHER

Here’s nightmare for the prudish: masses of people masturbating in public and on TV.

The annual so-called masturbate-a-thon was first launched five years ago by the San Francisco-based Centre for Sex and Culture to raise money for safe sex groups. In August 2006, the exciting event is to be exported to the UK, but with a twist: video cameras will capture the event for the enjoyment of the TV-viewing public.

Cameras from independent production company Zig Zag, which made Essex Boys for ITV1, will follow the organisers and participants for a 60-minute film, which has the working title of Wank-a-thon. It is expected to air on Channel 4 towards the end of the year.

The event will encourage Londoners – both male and female – to sign up sponsors and head to Clerkenwell in order to masturbate in front of hundreds of others.

Zig Zag said in its blurb for the show: “This year it’s time to bring the event across the pond to see if the great British public can embrace mass public masturbation. It’s time to find out if the only things allowed to be stiff in Britain are upper lips.”

Prizes will be on offer for those who clock up the most orgasms and those who can masturbate the longest — the current record, according to the organisers, is a chafing eight-and-a-half hours.

To qualify for the record, the organisers say “at least 55 minutes of every hour shall be spent self-pleasuring by manual or sex toy stimulation” with participants getting just five minutes to “replenish and renew”.

So boys and girls, if you happen to be around London on Aug. 5, feel free to drop by at the Drop Studios on Clerkenwell Road, drop your trousers, and beam your loveliest smile.

Oh, of course you know those are not the only things you’ll have to do.

MASTURBATE-A-THON HOMEPAGE

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