SF Jacks� basic mission over its history has not changed, as it continues to provide a venue for men to jack off together (neither oral sex nor anything penetrative is permitted). There was a real science of how we wanted to encourage camaraderie.� Where they had high-energy music, we had something more soothing. Karr, the lone Father active for the organization�s entire tenure, explained that SF Jacks �counter-programmed� from the then-existing sex venues �Where they had darkness, we had light. Rather, the original founders designed SF Jacks as an alternative to the baths and backroom bars then available.
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While I presumed SF Jacks formed in reaction to the AIDS pandemic, the Fathers informed me that the timing was merely coincidental they had no conscious intent to create a safe-sex club per se. Members of this loose affiliation became aware of NY Jacks (in New York, natch), and decided to create SF Jacks. According to the group�s �Flound�ring Fathers� (the ^ad hoc~ eight-member steering committee with whom I partook in dinner following the evening�s festivities), its nucleus began in the late 1970s, as 15-20 men gathered together in private homes. SF Jacks, a jack-off club for men in San Francisco, began the last Monday of March, 1983, but its origins predate that. A venerable San Francisco �public service institution� celebrates its 20th anniversary this March, and your intrepid reporter decided to check it out for you (in the name of participatory journalism, that is!).
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That�s a significant milestone for any organization.