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Somehow, somewhere, someone has decided that May is “Masturbation Month,” and if you think about it, there’s never been a better time to explore a little self-stimulation.

According to MasturbationMonth.com, this now-annual celebration of personal touch started in 1995 to rally around then-u.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was forced to resign after promoting masturbation as an alternative to risky sexual behaviors in a speech before the Un.

For actress and producer Tracee Ellis Ross, stepping behind the camera for the second time to direct an episode of “Black-ish,” the ABC family comedy on which she stars, carried a lot of importance. Not only had she learned valuable lessons from the first experience (such as to slow down and allow herself as much coverage when she was acting in a scene as she was giving everyone else), but the episode, titled “Black History Month,” was one designed to educate about leading African-American players in history, both in dialogue and in stylized PSA-style segments featuring guest star Octavia Spencer.

“The message of the episode really is that we are a vast group of people that historically, in the present, and in the future that’s coming down the pike, there is more to share that could never fit into a month,” Ross tells Variety. “It’s not about celebrating...

Masturbation is a touchy subject, which is why "Octomom" Nadya Suleman avoided it for all of her life.

But her debut in a recent self-pleasuring porn video turned Octomom into something of an advocate and she hopes that future generations can handily avoid her mistake.

She shares the same opinion as former Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders, who came under fire in 1994 for encouraging schools to teach masturbation.

"I believe it is in universities, but I think it should be incorporated into high schools as well," she told The Huffington Post while on a class field trip to a children's museum with her kids. "It's natural."

Suleman is putting her mouth where her money is. She recently released her first porn DVD, "Octomom: Home Alone," and while she admits that her beleagured financial situation -- which included filing for bankruptcy in May -- was a major reason for doing the solo sex shoot,...