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From The Hartford Advocate, via Private Eye: '"Even by San Francisco's standards, this is unusual," Carol Queen told reporters in the city.s Center for Sex and Culture, "but we want to encourage people to have a good time with themselves. It's a serious effort to counter centuries of censure, to make this activity more fun and make it more accessible. Even people who are naturally frisky tend to regard it as second-best sex, but not us. We regard it as safe sex, and we're providing an outlay for those who enjoy pleasuring themselves in a semi-public setting. So let the Masturbate-a-thon commence.

'With those words, Ms Queen opened San Francisco's annual self-pleasuring event, attended by more than 120 men and women (aged from 20 to 60), all of whom masturbated for up to eight hours...Tony from Central Valley said, "I grew up believing this was a horrible nasty thing to do, but the whole point of this is coming out and openly making love to your best friend, your right hand..

This year's Masturbate-a-thon was won by a New Yorker who wished to remain anonymous, and who shattered the previous endurance record of six-and-a-half hours (with a permitted five-minute break every hour). But last year's winner, Norine Dworkin, declined to take part this year. "To be honest," she admitted, "after the first hour it becomes about as pleasurable as rubbing your elbow."

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