A New Zealand Herald article advises that May is International Masturbation Month, this it advises having its origins in an International Masturbation Day established in 1995 in honour of then US Surgeon General, Jocelyn Elders.
Apparently Jocelyn was sacked for proposing masturbation be taught in schools.
The article does not say whether this is compulsory but regardless, why wait until May is nearly over before informing readers of this presumably obligatory duty?
Surely it should have been advised on the front page on the 1st May.