Masturbate-a-thon 2006

Yes, that's right. A charity has finally bitten the bullet (so to speak) and are hold a fundraising event for wankers...literally.

People are being sponsored to masturbate infront of each other and be filmed at the same time for a programme on Channel 4, which will be featured as part of their 'Masturbation Week' (other highlights of the week include compulsive masturbaters...featuring Tim Snowball?).

Called 'Masturbate-a-thon', the event will raise money for Marie Stroppes International a sexual health charity and the Terrance Higgins Trust. Participatns will arrive in a hall in London and then proceed to pleasure themselves infront of the others and the cameras for as long as they can. They get sponsored to take part. There are prizes for the most orgasms and the longest time spent doing the five finger shuffle (the current record is 8 hours), with 5 minutes rest every hour.

Can I just say, is there no lengths that fundraisers won't go to to raise money? This is just ridiculous. A spokeswoman from marrie stroppes said that this was all promoting sexual health and safe sex, 'after all, masturbation is the safest form of sex', but isn't this just going a little bit too far?

I think we have hit the bottom of the barrel.