GameLink to Sponsor 2008 Masturbate-a-Thon Event

San Francisco, CA – Online adult retailer GameLink.com has just announced it will be sponsoring San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture’s 2008 Masturbate-a-Thon event. The Center for Sex & Culture will hold the seventh annual fund-raising live Masturbate-a-Thon on May 25, 2008. The event is one of many National Masturbation Month events planned around the US, Canada, and Europe. National Masturbation Month seeks to raise awareness and dispel shame about this common sexual activity.

"Masturbation is a pleasure most people enjoy sometime over the course of their lives -- for many, it's an extremely important, fundamental outlet. We could all feel better about this if it was easier to talk about masturbation and acknowledge how common it is, and the Masturbate-a-Thon is one way to get us all talking," says Masturbate-a-Thon founder and director Carol Queen, Ph.D.

The CSC's Masturbate-a-Thon is a live group event at which participants will raise funds by getting others to sponsor them for the length of time they masturbate. This year’s Masturbate-a-Thon will also integrate technology and social media, using the micro-blogging platform Twitter to indicate a “Twittergasm,” a post to your personal profile that you’ve just had a real orgasm.

Stacie Adams, GameLink’s Social Media Coordinator, enthuses, “GameLink.com is building one of the very first adult communities of Twitter users through this year’s Masturbate-a-Thon event. Twitterers will be able to participate by simply typing ICSW (I Came, So What) or JOSW (Jacking Off, So What) into their Twitter profiles and we will track these strings using Tweetscan, a popular tracking service.”

This year’s Masturbate-a-Thon event will be hosted by AVN Hall of Famer and porn legend Nina Hartley. Masturbate-a-Thon supporters who live too far away to attend can join the Twitter community and tune in to the webcast on May 25, and interested parties who prefer a private Masturbate-a-Thon can download the pledge sheet, stay home and participate, and remit by mail.

About GameLink

GameLink.com, founded in San Francisco in 1993, is the original adult Internet retailer. GameLink offers a massive video-on-demand library of over 60,000 titles, as well as DVDs and select toys and apparel. For more information, please visit www.gamelink.com.