http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/taxonomy/term/1052 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/ElizabethsBlog/come-for-a-good-cause <p><a href="http://www.masturbate-a-thon.com/">This Sunday, May 25, is the annual masturbate-a-thon</a>. Learn about masturbation as safe sex and help raise money for <a href="http://centerforsexandculture.org">Center for Sex and Culture</a>. </p><p>Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaxWdp3rJro">this video of Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence discussing the masturbate-a-thon</a> and you will learn that National Masturbation Month (of which the &#39;thon is a central event) was founded by the sex educators at Good Vibrations in protest of the firing of Dr. Jocelyn Elders, who was Surgeon General for a short time during Bill Clinton&#39;s first administration. You may recall she was fired after suggesting that teaching young people about masturbation would help prevent STIs, unwanted pregnancies, and improve sexual health, and delay the start of sexual intercourse. </p><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yaxWdp3rJro&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yaxWdp3rJro&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><a href="http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/ElizabethsBlog/come-for-a-good-cause">read more</a></p> http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/ElizabethsBlog/come-for-a-good-cause#comments Carol Queen Center for Sex and Culture masturbate-a-thon masturbation Robert Lawrence Tue, 20 May 2008 10:16:46 -0700 Elizabeth 674 at http://sexinthepublicsquare.org