Wankathon!

[jokeripa]

Channel 4 is to bring mass public masturbation to the small screen.

The broadcaster - once led by Michael Grade, dubbed "pornographer in chief" by the Daily Mail - has commissioned a documentary about the UK's first "masturbate-a-thon" as part of a series of programmes dubbed "###### week", MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

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.

The organiser of the event, the San Francisco-based Centre for Sex and Culture, has run mass masturbation events in the US for the past five years to raise money for safe sex groups and plans to replicate the formula in the UK.

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 ######-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".

Two other programmes will also air as part of the week, which has been commissioned by the Channel 4 factual entertainment commissioning editor, Andrew MacKenzie.

"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. Masturbation is something many people do but not many people talk about," Mr MacKenzie told MediaGuardian.co.uk.

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[chconline Veteran]

What's happening to our world :|

[Napalm Frog]

What's happening to our world :|

I wish I knew...

[Arkaic]

ok. interesting, tho i personally would not do such. i enjoy privacy. :yes:

a girlfriend no prob? but not in front of lots of people or public. :|

edit: my personal opinion but sex (even with yourself) is better in the bedroom. bed, sex, get the point? lol but some people have no discretion. haha

[sfalcon]

So they're actually televising this?

[Valerus]

This = Disgusting.

[»X«]

Typical channel 4. Big brother was 6 weeks of watching ******s. Now we have another show about them.

[zeroday]

WTF?!?! They're gonna actually broadcast this :x

[Colin-uk Veteran]

yay for porn disguised as documentaries :x

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Hell, I'd do it ;)

[Syphonic]

I don't know about the rules for women but broadcasting rules in this country forbid the showing of an erect penis and any form of penetration.

Seems like this is doomed to fail.

[samg]

There proberly trying to push broadcasting bounderys more than anything.

First a erect penis/vagin on TV for charity, next its on all the time.

Bit weird if you ask me, but charity is good, and if people are willing to partisabte, then thats fine by me!

[Orange]

If only girls could help out :p

[Ferret]

I was just reading about this in the "Sun"...

But i'm more interested in this, just to see if they actually get away with televising it !

[samg]

If only girls could help out :p

The event will encourage Londoners - both male and female

[L3thal Veteran]

Thanks, but no thanks :p

[Sniper101]

The UK's making a name for it's self again :p

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

There proberly trying to push broadcasting bounderys more than anything.

First a erect penis/vagin on TV for charity, next its on all the time.

Actually not true anymore. I have seen both penetration and an erect penis on British television. Used to be the rule of thumb. Also used to be a woman could masturbate as long as her finger was straight and moving in a "downward" motion.

[jago_lfn]

I'd hate to be the janitor :no:

[L3thal Veteran]

I'd hate to be the janitor :no:

[HoochieMamma]

Actually not true anymore. I have seen both penetration and an erect penis on British television. Used to be the rule of thumb. Also used to be a woman could masturbate as long as her finger was straight and moving in a "downward" motion.

Eh?? :blink: You can't be serious? The worst we can get here is a pair or ###### or maybe an ass. Never full frontal nudity let alone XXX rated stuff.

[jokeripa]

Hell, I'd do it ;)

****, me 2 :p

The event will encourage Londoners - both male and female

I think he means he wants a handjob.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Eh?? You can't be serious? The worst we can get here is a pair or ###### or maybe an ass. Never full frontal nudity let alone XXX rated stuff.

Totally serious. It depends if it is shown as educational or sexual!

[R-Flex]

Wankathon!

Now there's a title that draws in the reader.

[Allan]

are they going to segregate it ... what happens if it turns into a screw-a-thon? *L*