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TIL about Wank Week, a British documentary series dedicated to increasing public awareness and dispelling any taboos surrounding masturbation. A press release even promised that it would reveal "if the only things allowed to be stiff in Britain are upper lips". It was, unsurprisingly, canceled.

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