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FRIDAY JULY 21 2006 8:00 PM

Don't Touch That Dial! People Are Touching Themselves

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Tags: Channel 4, Britain, masturbation, contest, television

Forget Shark Week. In what could be the best programming stunt ever, Channel 4 in the U.K. is planning a weeklong series of shows dedicated to... masturbation.

"Wank Week" will celebrate the favorite activity of many (most?) of us. The highlight of the week will be a documentary on the U.K.'s first "masturbate-a-thon" competition.

In what must surely be one of the summer's more bizarre events, hundreds of people are expected to gather in a hall in central London on August 5 to pleasure themselves in aid of charity.

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.

The wank-a-thon is organized by the San Francisco-based Center for Sex and Culture, which is using the event to raise money for safe sex groups.

Channel 4 executive Andrew MacKenzie seems confident this will be a ratings-grabber.

"Following on from the success of 'Penis week', we feel this is exactly the type of provocative and mischievous programming that Channel 4 should be covering in the 11pm slot."

Right now someone at Fox is taking notes.

Official wank-a-thon logo

Comments

Tallboy66

Chicago, IL

January 2005

JUL 21, 2006 08:04 PM

"a chafing eight-and-a-half hours."

Is that like tantric masturbation?

I mean how would you...?

Oz_the_Vamp

Lorain, OH

June 2005

JUL 21, 2006 08:18 PM

I dunno, I've had sex for 7 hours before, so 8.5 wouldn't be that much more of a stretch.

mrnonel

Los Angeles, CA

August 2004

JUL 21, 2006 08:50 PM

So when do we get to see the USA production? It would be more entertaining than the Jerry Lewis telethon.

guynotnorml

Nashville, TN

September 2005

JUL 22, 2006 05:54 AM

jerry lewis wanking kinda makes me laugh a little...
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HEY LAaaaDY!!!

The_New_Scum

United Kingdom

March 2006

JUL 22, 2006 06:04 AM

Predictably though, Mediawatch have gotten involved. I wonder what it must be like, having a life so hollow and devoid of pleasure that you have to go and protest outside fucking TV stations.