Thursday, August 24, 2006

And this is just yucky

Warning - yucky (adult) topic follows.

Supposedly to raise funds and awareness about HIV/AIDS, several "Masturbate-A-Thons" have been held in England, and San Francisco.

The real purpose - at least for the reporters - seems to be a chance to comment on the prude-ish-ness of Americans and our insistence that the best policy to prevent sexually transmitted disease and teen pregnancy is abstinence.

But, seriously, any event that needs 200 rolls of toilet paper should not be public or a morality lesson for anyone.

1 comment:

Suricou Raven said...

Seems like a bit of harmless fun to me :> Not exactly pleasant, but immoral? I dont see why.

I can understand the reasoning. Its essentially a protest against sexual taboos. The most obvious way to do this is to break them, on a large scale, in a harmless but very public way.