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May is National Masturbation Month. What a better way to celebrate the coming of spring with pleasuring yourself.

A friend brought my attention to Masturbate-a-thon which is a fundraiser with the proceeds benefiting the Center for Sex & Culture in San Francisco, California. If you can’t make it to the event, you can participate on-line within the comfort of your own home. Unfortunately, I have a training session that weekend so I won’t be able to. However, next year I’ll be sure to enter and raise money and awareness for a wonderful cause.

There is a lot of information about the event, which I encourage you to check out as well as the Center for Sex & Culture. It’s a non-profit sex education center in America that put on classes, workshops and so much more.

There is still a lot of stigma and taboo surrounding masturbation. Growing up and even in my teenage years it was never brought up in school or around the house. Growing up in a Catholic household, the beginning of my sexual education was abstinence based. We were never taught about safe sex or even masturbation. They tried to scary us with implying that the only thing that will happen if you have sex is pregnancy or a sexual transmitted disease. Luckily though we learned though other resources (mostly our friends siblings) about various forms of protection however most of that information was flawed in one way or another. However, masturbation was never talked about. We had to discover it on our own and it was always something that was hidden. It wasn’t until graduating high school that I became comfortable with myself and was able to explore various forms of sexual express including masturbation or BDSM.

Things are starting to change which is a positive sign however there are numerous barriers blocking safer sex education. It’s important for people to have access to safer sex information and for the resources to be non-judgmental. Which is why I support organizations like this. I wish I had information like this when I was growing up.

Now to celebrate the month of May in my own way by climbing into bed with some of my favourite toys. I encourage you to do the same. Enjoy yourself and the safest sex that there is.