Normally, I like to joke about the links I publish here, perhaps slipping in a gentle pun or two, to point out the ridiculous nature of the idea communicated.

Here, I just don’t know what to say.

Channel 4 is to bring mass public masturbation to the small screen.

The broadcaster – once led by Michael Grade, dubbed “pornographer in chief” by the Daily Mail – has commissioned a documentary about the UK’s first “masturbate-a-thon” as part of a series of programmes dubbed “Wank Week”, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

Wank Week!?