Thirteen years ago, with nothing more than a few photocopied pamphlets, a marketing idea, and a whole lotta moxie, a coalition of feminist sex stores began celebrating May as National Masturbation Month. The centerpiece of the month, what we might call the tent pole event, is the masturbate-a-thon, a charity fundraiser that has raised thousands of dollars for worthy sexual health and sex rights organizations.

Most of the sex stores have dropped the event, but there are at least two masturbate-a-thon’s still going strong; one in Portland and one in San Francisco.

I haven’t been hit up to sponsor anyone (yet) but to do my part and celebrate the other great thing about May (besides the weather) I’ll be featuring masturbation content all month and try my hand at tackling some of the big philosophical masturbation questions of our time.

Read more - Five Questions about the Masturbate-a-Thon