Sex Questions from the Twittersphere: How was the Masturbate-a-Thon, Carol?
By Dr. Carol Queen • May 6th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Carol Queen, Events, Masturbate-a-thonQuestion: Did you have fun at the Masturbate-a-Thon?
Great fun! The Masturbate-a-Thon was held Saturday, and competitors (looking to best the world time record) started at 11 a.m.; I was running around getting ice and stuff, that’s always my last-minute job, and got there at 3 or so. By 4:30 it was time to start the webcast (it was a little late; the whole thing is always a technical clusterfuck because we only do it one time per year and there’s a little whell-re-inventing involved, but our tech crew volunteers their time and expertise and they’re *amazing*).
So I put on my new sparkly Masturbate-a-Thon t-shirt (you can get a nice one from masturbate-a-thon.com, it’s an awesome Mona Caron design – but mine is the only one with sparkles) and sat and interviewed our special guests and random fabulous people in attendance, like April Flores, our pornstar celebrity co-host; Sister Roma; Kirk Read; the team from the Lusty Lady Theatre; Theresa from CarnalNation.com, who was one of our featured masturbators (and to date our #1 $-earner—we’ll know at the end of the month whether she stays ahead in that race, since people can still donate via the website and sponsored individuals may still have sponsor money coming our way). Also did a great interview with Ed Ehrgott, who for three years held the world record; now he is working with Nellie Wilson to do a masturbation education project online, the Sacred Touch School.
Finally it was time to screen the Good Vibes IXFF video (gv-ixff.org – coming soon to eight cities around the US!), which gave ME time to go into the masturbatorium. I was a feature, too, and who knows if I earned any money for the Center for Sex & Culture (since the whole shindig was a benefit, our largest of the year) – but I had a fabulous time watching the GV filmfest, enjoying the engineering marvel that is the Hitachi Magic Wand, and was smack-dab better Lusty Lady Violet, who was also Hitachi’ing her way to many orgasms, and Ed, who is a GREATE masturbator, and the ultimate winner of the time competition, Masa, all the way from Japan and there representing the next big sex product thing, Tenga (coming soon to GV!), a men’s masturbation sleeve that must work great, because he went for 9 hours and 58 minutes! Yes!! He is a Masturbation Jedi!! He got mondo applause.
Then we, like, mopped the floors until midnight. But it was worth it! We’ll be putting more details soon on the website – plus there’s more info there about our other sponsors, including LELO, Fleshlight, Big Teaze Toys, Hathor lube (GV), and Blowfish. We’ll schedule next year’s extravaganza soon – calendar it and come join us!
Tweet! – CQ
Dr. Carol Queen >> Carol Queen is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology. First as an organizer in the lesbian/gay community, where she helped found one of the first gay youth groups in the United States, and later in the emerging international bisexual community, as a sex worker and a practitioner of alternative sexualities, she typically teaches and writes from her own experience and that of her communities even as she references academic thought on these subjects. See her website: www.carolqueen.com.
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