We've just launched the new Boobie-Thon website for 2007! More information will be added as we get closer to the event.

However, we have added one new featured called "Share Your Story". Check it out!

We'll see you on the 1st!

If you read us via RSS Feed, our feed has changed. Please update it to:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/boobiethon

Thank you!

We have started taking submissions for this year's Bloggers-Helping-Bloggers portion of the event. Deadline for submissions is Wednesday September 19. 2007!

Also, we still need volunteers, so don't be shy! Contact us today.

Hello everyone! I wanted to let you all know that I am busy working on a new site for the 2007 Blogger Boobie-Thon. The Boobie-Thon will run from October1, 2007 to October 8, 2007. Be sure to watch this space for news and info about the event.

I also put out a call for volunteers on my blog. If you are interested, please do get in touch!

Thanks again for your continued support and I am really looking forward to this years event!!

We WILL be back in October 2007 - bigger and better than ever before! And we'll be under new management so stay tuned!

Thanks for your continued support!
-Robyn

The 2006 Boobie-Thon has come and gone. I'd like to take a second to first thank all of our volunteers without whom none of this would be possible. They've worked around the clock making sure you always had new photo content and constant donation updates. They've also helped me and Lisa with a job that's truly outgrown two people - we have three departments, coordinators, and multiple help-desks now. Amazing!

Next, I'd like to thank everyone who donated, submitted photos, linked the site - and even those who were so vocally critical. No publicity is bad publicity and there's been a lot of healthy discussion out there about breast cancer this week and just how to fund a cure for it. That's never a bad thing.

We raised OVER NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS this year — we've passed that milestone two years in a row! How incredible is that? (Since 2002, we've raised over $35,000!)

I'll drop by again next week with final updates when I've had a bit more sleep. But for now, as we close another year in the books, I just had to say THANK YOU! Truly, from the bottom of my heart!

-Robyn
shutterblog.com
Boobie-Thon Founder

P.S. If you've written, you will get a reply. I promise - I want to thank everyone personally. I just need to hug my kids first...

So. Another year. Each year has brought new aspects to this humble party. We've gotten to know some people who have returned year after year with support through donations and pictures. We've read stories from people who've battled breast cancer and won; we've seen some of our friends succumb to breast cancer and related issues and had their health deteriorate. We've seen pictures from people of all shapes, sizes, and skin tones, all wanting to come together to celebrate breast health and raise awareness in the hopes of saving lives. We've heard so many jokes about cervical cancer it's not funny anymore. But most of all we've raised money toward worthy causes and felt good about having done something that matters.

Among others, here are a few worthwhile notes about this year's Boobie-Thon. We and our volunteers have, in the past two weeks, processed over 1500 emails, published over 900 pictures in over 6 different primary galleries, and posted over 150 entries just with photo submissions. That's a lot! I am truly humbled and amazed by your support.

We've learned a lot. We've reinforced friendships. We've laughed, cried, celebrated, and stressed together. We've been a team. All of us. Those of us behind the scenes and all of you out there, reading this. For this brief time we've worked together toward a common goal and we were successful! Thank you, volunteers, donors, people who linked the Boobie-Thon on your site and directed traffic our way, and especially those of you who influenced other people to donate their money, time, or boobie pictures to the cause. Finally, and foremost, thank you Robyn, for putting your influence and energy into giving a little something back for a fifth year in a row.

Without you, (and you... and you and you and you) there really wouldn't be a Boobie-Thon. Please... talk amongst yourselves....

Have you made your donation yet? It comes with FREEBIES! Hurry up!

PLEASE NOTE: This main page of the site will always remain work-safe with text updates only, as will the RSS feed linked in the sidebar. Only the photos pages aren't work-safe. Links in the sidebar marked with an asterisk (*) are not considered work-safe either.

We are theeeeeees close to cracking the $9K barrier before we wrap. Help us do it! From now until we get to last year's total, or the 'Thon closes, in addition to your $15 or more donation getting the free "pay-per-boobies" login (this login includes access to over 300 photos for 2006, and the passwords to all previous-years' pay galleries as well) - you'll also get your choice of coverd or bare wallpapers.

We are now less than $565 away from matching last year's take - with just under five hours left in this year's Boobie-Thon.

Matching last year's "take" against this year's is somewhat skewed however, because we opened donations a day early in 2005 to coincide with a Wired Magazine feature. And the way the calendar worked out with weekends, that put us open 9 total days last year vs. this year's 7 days.

So should we not quite match last year before all is said and done, the donation amounts are stacked up against 48-hours less — and I just can't say "THANK YOU!" enough.

But I can do this... Any donation of $15 or more - until we match the total-take for 2005, or the 'Thon ends, whichever comes first - will get a free "pay-per-boobies" login (this login includes access to over 300 photos for 2006, and the passwords to all previous-years' pay galleries as well).

So if you've been waiting to donate, the clock is literally ticking now. Hurry up!

Found the following in our comment-inbox this afternoon...

Dear Robyn;

Just a note of encouragement for your goals. I am a survivor who thanks you from the bottom of my heart for what you do and have been doing. Don't let small minded, petty, imbecilic people get to you.

I walk the Breast Cancer 3 Day and the Komen Race in Minneapolis. I know the level of commitment it takes to devote yourself to this cause.

Wish I had thought of it first. But here's one you might want to play with... in a conversation with another survivor- who has had reconstruction (I haven't)- we debated which of us would have the best chance at a wet tee shirt contest. As we batted the idea around, we quickly realised that we could do some serious fundraising around this. And a fundraiser was born. There are five survivors on my team. I am the only one who hasn't had reconstruction. We are now seeking other 3 Day teams that want to share in the fun.

People have to understand that Breast Cancer is about BREASTS! Don't really much care if you like the subject matter or not- that's what it is. We can only cure it if we can say the words.

My thanks again for your awesome work!

"We can only cure it if we can say the words." I couldn't have said it better myself!

Less than six hours to go now for this year's event. DONATE!

We've broken $8K in under 7 full-days! WOW! As mentioned earlier, first donation (it's gone!) - regardless of amount - gets the free "pay-per-boobies" login! Just over nine hours to go until the 2006 event ends... Don't be left out! DONATE!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

With little fuss or fanfare, photo submissions are now closed. No exceptions. We have gotten some great pictures in just under the wire and we'll be processing and posting throughout the day on various pages. Some of the best pictures we received just this morning are only for the VIP page and will also be posted shortly if they're not up already. Check back often and donate soon!

This is your last and final warning:

Photo submissions officially end at noon (12 p.m. EDT) TODAY. No exceptions. This is so all submitted photos can be processed and placed online before the 2006 'Thon ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on 10/7.

After that, you don't have to go home, but you can't submit photos here. Just over two hours to go now, so get busy!

Let's see if we can't break that $8K mark today, shall we? First donation to hit the milestone, regardless of amount, gets the "pay-per-boobies" login for free!

We now have over 300 photos in our 2006 pay-per-boobies galleries! We've now reached #500 in the female section of the free galleries! WOW! Thank you so much to everyone who's submitted. One more quick reminder...

Photo submissions officially end at noon (12 p.m. EDT) on Saturday, October 7th. No exceptions. This is so all submitted photos can be processed and placed online before the 2006 'Thon ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on 10/7.

Less than 24 hours to go now 'til we officially close up shop...get those donations in ASAP!

I would like to take a minute to share some of my feelings with you. I am not the originator of the idea behind the Boobie-Thon, but I am a strong believer in what it stands for. If you would like to take a short break to read the story behind the first Boobie-Thon, I'll wait. I remember reading about it as it happened. I personally thought the decision to direct the excess funds raised by the first year's festivities toward breast cancer awareness was pure genius. The next year enough bloggers begged Robyn to do it all over again that she relented and figured out a way to ensure that all of the money could go to worthy causes rather than what she could have done, which was to throw a gigantic party and donate what was left to charity. I was so impressed I immediately ponied up a couple of pictures of my breasts - the very first time they'd ever made an online appearance. It was for a good cause! It was for breast cancer awareness! The next year even more people wanted to be a part of the fun. The rest is history.

The majority of the people who were involved in the beginning were already friends, and some of them still send us pictures each year. Even though the Boobie-Thon has grown the way it has, it's still about helping people when all is said and done. I got involved because I thought Robyn might need help, and because everyone was having so much fun I wanted to be a part of it. I enjoyed helping out with the Boobie-Thon so much that I volunteered again the next year. That year, due to a variety of reasons, I needed more help with the accepting and processing of photo submissions, but it was still fun. Since that time, we have had to make so many things about accepting and posting photos standardized that it's almost lost its "bloggers about helping bloggers" family feeling. Quite a few of the people who send in pictures don't even have a blog or a website.

The people who send in a photo to the Boobie-Thon would, for the most part, not be the ones you'd expect to show their bodies to strangers. Most also send touching letters, thanking the team for putting in the time we do to keep this going year after year. We receive stories of aunts, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, fathers, brothers, grandfathers, and uncles who have died or battled breast cancer. We receive pictures from survivors brave enough to send them. We read stories that make us alternately cry and cheer; we see pictures that make us laugh, some that make us cry, and some from good-natured guys who support raising awareness about breast health. Mostly, we put in hours on end at the computer and get very little sleep, food, sunshine, or exercise during almost 3 weeks out of a year in the name of raising money for breast cancer research.

Almost all of the articles I've seen pooh-poohing the Boobie-Thon protest the fact that we ask people to donate to Komen. Most skip right over the fact that each year we've chosen a separate blogger-related charity to donate to if you choose not to send your funds to Komen. Last year the Boobie-Thon raised $1355.40 for the Red Cross Katrina fund. If the current selection selection of recipients doesn't please you, may I suggest that you choose one of your own, or create one for a cause that matters to you? We are an equal opportunity fundraiser and we encourage you to give of your time and money to the charity of your choice. If you have already done so, thank you. If have not, and you choose instead to write an article pointing fingers and doing the journalistic equivalent of poking fun at anyone who has, then I would say your demeanor resembles that of a schoolyard bully. You have a right to support any charity you'd like, whether it be for AIDS research, saving the rain forest, or testicular or prostate cancer - and please do! My senior class president had testicular cancer while still in high school, and someone I know and respect recently went through a battle with prostate cancer. I appreciate the time, expertise and money spent on research to learn enough to help each of them come away from their battle with a clean bill of health. No matter who you choose as your beneficiary, please support them and create awareness without using your audience to denigrate a fundraising effort that works just as hard to raise awareness and funds for their chosen recipient.

To those of you who have returned year after year supporting the Boobie-Thon either through volunteering, donating money or pictures, or linking the site and helping raise interest and awareness, thank you very much. Without all of you, this would not be anywhere near as successful or fun as it has come to be.

There you have it. My two cents. A long-winded equivalent of, "Can't we all just get along and be happy?" Now, back to saving the boobies.

I heard a little rumor from the donations desk that we've broken $7K (THANK YOU ALL)! Next donation, regardless of amount, gets it (got it)!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

...and for campaigns such as "Boobiethon 2006," which encourages female bloggers to post pictures of their breasts online because "if they're worth looking at, they're worth saving," a claim that is disturbing to say the least, as it implies the most tragic victims of breast cancer are a woman's breasts. [link, credit: Echo Online]

Editorial comment: Oh how I love it when the "media" latches onto ONE quote I've made on the site within the last five years. As if that's the one and only statement I've ever made of just exactly why we're here and why we do what we do every October. Then turns around and lumps us into the "pink profit machine"- like we see even a single penny of anything that's raised here. 100% of our funds go to Susan G. Komen (or our secondary charity). 100%. Say it again with me slowly. ONE. HUNDRED. PERCENT. The money never even changes hands through our site. We send you directly to the charity to donate. We only ask for receipt-confirmation as a "pledge" when adding you into our totals.

Our volunteers have worked countless hours for the last five Boobie-Thons, all donated. Our domain name is donated. Our bandwidth is donated. Our server space is donated. There is no overhead whatsoever. I don't bill anyone for the hundreds — yes, hundreds, of hours it takes to do this every year. From coding, to writing, to PR, to site updates, to donation updates, to looking at photo after photo until our eyes nearly bleed...

It's so convenient to sit there all smug and righteous (and virtually anonymous) behind your keyboard, criticizing everything and offering no "real" solution other than "give of yourself rather than of your wallet" — don't just shop, get educated, volunteer. You mean it's just THAT cookie-cutter easy? I think I'll put that on a t-shirt!

Do these reporters bother to ask for an interview from me before writing these articles? No. They don't want to hear what I have to say. It wouldn't fit their story angle. I might actually have...an intelligent thought they'd have to quote. They want to twist what's already been said - the little they actually, purposely BOTHER TO READ here - to fit their own agendas. To make us into exploiters and pornographers here to rip off your buck and make another blush and bashful blender and mixer collection with it...

Perhaps when Ms. Lemorie gets far enough into her collegiate curriculum at Eastern Michigan to take reading in addition to writing, she'll learn to take the entire premise behind a campaign, with such appropriate quotes as:

We know why we're here. Every year. Putting in countless, sleepless hours at the cost to our families and very oftentimes our sanity...if you've viewed even one single image in our survivors' galleries since 2002, you can hardly claim we view breasts as only worth saving because they're "sexy". They're worth saving because every single one of us on this planet, male or female, is born with a pair. We are all at risk.

And personally, I sign on every October because I'd rather save the breasts to start with than have to write another obituary on my blog ever again. [link]

Until then, I'm merely sending her to our amount raised page. You see, I raise more than just "awareness". I raise the MONEY to fund the CURE.

Have you seen how close we are to the $7K mark on just day six? Don't forget - a free 'pay login' is on the line - donate NOW!

And so no one can claim "but you didn't warn me"...

Photo submissions officially end at noon (12 p.m. EDT) on Saturday, October 7th. No exceptions. This is so all submitted photos can be processed and placed online before the 2006 'Thon ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on 10/7.

You've got an entire Friday night to get creative and get-a-snappin'. Get those photos in before it's too late!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

We are this close to the $7K mark now - so for our next "pink light special" - the first person to push us over that milestone, regardless of donation amount, will win a free login to the (just updated!) "pay-per-boobie" galleries!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

Nudity does not necessarily equal porn. Nudity is nudity. Nudity is the human form in its natural state. Visit your local art museum for more details.

I'm just sayin', because I've seen a number of people refer to the Boobiethon as "Porn for the Cure" or "Pink Porn."

Robyn is not profiting from the Boobiethon. None of the volunteers are profiting from the Boobiethon. Those who equate the Boobeithon with "Pink Ribbon Profiteering" should do some research before they accuse my friends of something they have nothing to do with.

Last I checked, 100% of funds raised goes directly to charity.

If you're mad, because you don't think Komen is a "worthy" charity, why don't you suggest some worthy breast cancer related charities (and reasons why they're more worthy), rather than hem and haw about how "Their hearts are in the right place, BUT..."

People, your hearts are in the right place too, but you should really do something about it rather than just talk about it. [link]

Editorial comment: I have to say after a week of 16-20 hour days working on nothing but the 'Thon, it's kinda nice to surf around out there and find positive things written about what we do as well...

Hi everybody! I'm really excited about the support we've received from everyone this year. The female photos page has been expanded yet again with another gallery added to make room for all the great pictures we've gotten. I love all the creative shots that have come through the inbox. We have almost 500 in the free galleries, and that's just the women! Keep up the good work!

Just this morning I added some great new pics to the VIP page, so if you haven't donated yet you really should quit procrastinating. I can tell you that the photo submission response has been so incredible we have almost 300 pictures in the pay galleries alone! (Yes, because you submitters have been so awesome, we had to split the pay page into galleries, too.) Woohoo! I'm looking forward to seeing those totals go up, people! Dig deep, send money, save the boobies!

Just another reminder,

Photo submissions officially end at noon (12 p.m. EDT) on Saturday, October 7th. No exceptions. This is so all submitted photos can be processed and placed online before the 2006 'Thon ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on 10/7.

Photo submissions are being accepted once again!

This is the first of many future reminders...

Photo submissions officially end at noon (12 p.m. EDT) on Saturday, October 7th. No exceptions. This is so all submitted photos can be processed and placed online before the 2006 'Thon ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on 10/7.

Happy Friday everyone!

"Me Again" won tonight's free pay-per-boobie login with this photo* (link not work safe). Thanks so much!

This "pink light special" doesn't even require a donation. Just some quick creativity.

The first person (it's gone!) to send me a photo of themselves holding a sign that says "The 2006 Boobie-Thon Volunteers Rock" gets a free pay-per-boobie login! We're not looking for professional quality - but sketch-artists need not apply. We want an actual photograph, be it digital or cellular.

Our volunteers and coordinators have worked their ta-tas off behind the scenes this week. Please tell them you appreciate it!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

Robyn Pollman, the Florida-based founder of the Boobie-Thon, has said that "sending a message that 'if our breasts are worth looking at, they're worth saving' is very empowering". Here, inadvertently, she gets to the crux of the matter. Part of the reason why breast cancer attracts so much more attention than other causes is that our culture really does value women's breasts - often apparently more than it values women in general.

Although raising money for breast cancer research is hugely important, and can be done brilliantly...using hugely reductive images seems unhelpful. Until we women are appreciated for rather more than our boobs, we can surely find more interesting, more inventive and less harmful ways to raise a buck. [link, credit: New Statesman]

Editorial comment: We have now worked countless hours and raised over $30,000 in five years. What exactly have you done Ms. Cochrane, other than type out a few snarky English phrases on a keyboard?

Once again, please let me state quite clearly for the record (since you didn't even bother to request an interview before publishing that piece)... "Don't just bitch. Do."

We now have our 100th donor and their donation was for.....$100! We've already raised over $5000 in the last five days. Amazing!

So this means the very next person (all gone!) to donate, regardless of amount, will receive the free pay-per-boobies login. These go fast, so don't wait around!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

Photo submissions are once again being accepted - send 'em in!

We're over half-way through this year's event now. We could not even possibly imagine the response and support we've received this year. We actually had to put a temporary-hold on photo submissions until 1 p.m. EDT today in order to let our poor, drowning photo coordinators and editors catch up (and eat their first hot meal in almost two weeks). I'll give the heads-up here when we're taking photos again!

Please link to the site again today, even if you have already. We need to bring in as much traffic as possible in these final few days...

And don't forget the goodies and treats in store for the donor who pushes us over the century mark. Donate NOW!

If you've seen the donations tally lately, we're getting closer and closer to the 100-donations mark! So to say thanks, donor #100 - regardless of donation amount - will receive the login to the "pay-per-boobies" section of the site.

If you've been sitting around putting off making a donation, we're over half-way through with our annual event! The time to stop procrastinating is NOW!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

We just passed the $4000 mark (barely into day four - yeah!) so this is a quick heads-up that the free pay-login still remains for the very next donor (it's gone!), regardless of donation amount. If you want it, you'd better hurry!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

Download times starting to get you down? Then you're probably trying to view the painfully slow "all photos*" page...

Did you know we have links to all of the individual galleries over in the sidebar? Like our pink ribbon / survivor gallery*. Or our pectoral pics* gallery. Even our mammary pics* galleries, which are now conveniently split up by dates (as first mentioned on 10/3).

We even have a photo sampler page* with the most recent updates of every category.

So why are you over there driving in the "slow" lane? Check the sidebar and put your left blinker on!

Oh yeah...almost forgot! First person to take us to $4000, regardless of donation amount, gets another free "pay-per-boobies" login! So open up those wallets and give!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

After seeing our donation coordinator Skits' midnight update over on the donations totals page, it hit me that we were now at $3445.00 at the end of day three of operations. That averages out to about $1150 per day thus far. Not bad at all! I just can't say "thank you" enough.

Also, our event coordinator Lisa gathered up quotes and testimonials passed along to us by participants this year. You can find that link here and over in the right sidebar. It's very humbling, let me tell you. Sometimes you see and hear so much negativity swirling around this event every year, it's nice to take a breather - step back - and remember just exactly why we keep coming back for more each October.

If you have something to say and would like it added, click the "contact us" link at the end of this entry.

And thanks again everyone - for the links, for the photos, the donations, and the countless hours our volunteers have all put in - we appreciate them all equally!

Debating on whether or not a $50+ donation* is worth it? Signs point to "YES*!

Donate now.

October is the tenth month of the year. So the next three (all gone - sorry!) people to donate ten dollars to either of our charities will receive the pay-per-boobies login for free.

Ready. Set. Go!

UPDATE: The free logins are gone - check back again soon for another promotion!

I don't like the implication that certain parts of women's bodies are "worth saving" because they're sexy. Boobiethon is sending a message that breast cancer should be stopped because it claims beautiful breasts as its victims-- not because it's a horrible disease that's killing women. [link]

Editorial comment: I take offense at this statement personally on too many levels to count. We know why we're here. Every year. Putting in countless, sleepless hours at the cost to our families and very oftentimes our sanity. Yes, we have cutesy little catch-phrases and 'marketing strategies' aimed at getting people to donate that would have never given a second thought to opening their wallets to such a cause otherwise. And I think our donation totals over the years speak for themselves.

But if you've viewed even one single image in our survivors' galleries since 2002, you can hardly claim we view breasts as only worth saving because they're "sexy". They're worth saving because every single one of us on this planet, male or female, is born with a pair. We are all at risk.

And personally, I sign on every October because I'd rather save the breasts to start with than have to write another obituary on my blog ever again.

Have you funded your free mammogram today?

We've had another first in the history of the Boobie-Thon - galleries so large, we needed to split them up into parts. So from now on when you click the direct link to all the mammary pics* submitted this year, you will be met by links to different galleries by submission dates. Just click the links to get to the appropriate timeframe.

Our take at the end of day two was a whopping 2610.00! This puts us near $600 more than where we were after taking donations for two days last year. Incredible. Thank you all so much!

And FYI - all of our recent donations have been over $50, so the "pink light special" free pay-per-boobie login is still available (it's gone now) -- regardless of donation amount! Grab it while you can!

That's it for us tonight...official updating hours are over on the main and donations pages. We'll catch you on Tuesday morning!

We're only $10 away from having raised two thousand dollars for Komen in less than two days. Next person to push us over the mark, regardless of donation amount, gets a free pink light special pay-per-boobies login!

UPDATE: We've now eclipsed the $2000 mark to Komen, but we're still holding the free login for the next person who donates and wouldn't normally get the login, regardless of amount donated!

UPDATE 2: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another one!

If you don't believe in pink. If you don't believe in what we're doing here. Well then for goodness sake, believe in something and donate here instead.

We can't add donations made to Breast Cancer Action into our total raised for 2006 because it wasn't announced as a chosen charity from the start. But we can certainly chalk one up for karma and a cure if you open your wallets.

Don't just bitch. Do.

Just a quick update to let you all know we have lots of new pretty pictures on the photos page and some new ones on the pay page as well. If you haven't donated yet so you can go see them, what are you waiting for? Go, get your name on the list!

I've never been so proud to live in Tampa Bay - one of our downtown skyscrapers (the SunTrust Financial Centre) has changed its top-lighting to the color pink (small photo included) for the remainder of October in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

Workers spent four hours today, installing light covers over each of the 136 blue and white lights...

The lights are visible from nine miles away. You can read more in another article at the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

We have just topped the $1000-mark and day-one isn't complete yet! The very next donation, regardless of amount, gets the last free pay-per-boobie login today!

UPDATE: The free login is gone - check back again soon for another one!

Just 16-hours after site launch, and we've already raised $635! That's incredible!

So as our little way of saying thanks...

The donors who push us above the $750 mark (this one is gone), and then the $1000 mark (this one is gone, too) — regardless of donation amount ($5, 10, $25 - doesn't matter - give what you can) — will both receive free logins to the pay-per-boobies area of the site.

Look at some skin* while you're watching the pigskin on TV. Give now!

UPDATE: The free logins are gone - check back again soon for another one!

Welcome to the 2006 Boobie-Thon! All links are now active. You can make a donation. Stick around and see the photos* (link not work safe and very graphics-intensive)! Even submit a photo* yourself, and / or link to us from your own sites and blogs!

Stay tuned for frequent updates, promotions for free access to the "pay-per-boobie" page (bare-breast photos - examples here - available to donors of $50 or more - we already have over 100 200 photos on the pay section of the site this year thanks to early-submissions, and your $50+ donation includes the logins to past-years' pay-per pages as well)...

Thanks for stopping by -- and viva la boobies! "If they're worth looking at, they're worth saving!"

Just over 12 hours left now until we officially launch. I'd like to take a second to thank each and every one of our volunteers (you can see their names / sites over in the sidebar to the right). This year we seem to have things down to a near-science, and it wouldn't be possible without their literal around-the-clock help!

Hey - did you know we have our very own Wikipedia entry?

October 1st is almost here - is everyone getting excited? I'm happy to report that as of this morning we already have over 100 photos and counting added to our free gallery (unveiled at 12:01 a.m. EDT Saturday night / Sunday morning depending on your time zone), and over 50 photos added to the "pay-per-boobies" gallery! Truly an amazing response. Thanks everyone, and keep those photos coming!

We were featured in the September 28th "Broadsheet" edition of Salon.com. Click here to read more.

Still don't understand what all of this fuss is about? Make sure you check out the links at the top right of the page, including our official 2006 press release. And remember, a great deal of the site doesn't officially launch until 10/1. So check back often!

Event Founder Robyn and 2006 Event Coordinator Lisa are both featured in a new interview about the Boobie-Thon at Katie Schwartz's blog. Click here to read more!

[Admin note: We are in no way affiliated with nor do we officially endorse the content on the above site. Our event founder and coordinator merely granted the request for an interview based on the 2006 Boobie-Thon.]

A special "hello" to our new visitors from Wired.com! The event officially kicks off at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, October 1, 2006. It will run through 11:59 p.m. EDT on Saturday, October 7, 2006. We're currently taking early photo submissions.

For more information about the Boobie-Thon, please scroll down to this year's welcome post. And thanks for stopping by!

[Admin note: This year's Wired nod is linked on our "featured at" page.]

Would you like to donate your Blogad space to the 2006 Boobie-Thon? Instructions are located here!

And don't forget, we're now taking early photo submissions to make sure the site is filled with content on launch-day (October 1st). You can find more information on how to submit photographs, and what kind of photographs are accepted, here.

PLEASE NOTE: This main page of the site will always remain work-safe with text updates only, as will the RSS feed linked in the sidebar. Only the photos pages aren't work-safe. Links in the sidebar marked with an asterisk (*) are not considered work-safe either.

The fifth annual blogger "Boobie-Thon" launches on Sunday, October 1, 2006. It will run through 11:59 p.m. EDT on Saturday, October 7, 2006. This yearly event features bloggers showing their (covered and uncovered) breasts in order to raise money for charity during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (Please click here for the 2005 site). Watch this space in the upcoming days for more information and updates, and go here for information on how to submit your photograph!

For more information on the over $26,000 we've raised since 2002, please visit the official 2005 Boobie-Thon website.

For information on our media features, visit our press page.

We're requesting that in the spirit of the original Boobie-Thon, the first $359 donated this year go toward Children's Hospital Boston as the "bloggers helping bloggers" portion of the Boobie-Thon. We have selected this charity to honor Baby Samson, the son of the bloggers at snazzykat.com and minorthird.com. Samson was born on February 24, 2006, with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome a.k.a. HLHS. His parents have requested Children's Hospital as the recipient of donations in his honor. (You can find more on the history of the $359 donation here.)

The remainder of the proceeds raised will go directly to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, for the fifth straight year in a row. To date we have raised more than $24,000 for Komen alone since starting the Boobie-Thon in 2002.

Your donations to both charities are tax deductible, and this year the Boobie-Thon will be once again operating as in a pledge capacity rather than taking your donations personally.

Please check back on October 1st for information on submitting your pledges to us, and your donations directly to our selected charities.

NOTICE: Our official updating hours are from 8 a.m.-midnight EDT. Additional
updates made to the 'donors / amount raised' pages overnight when possible.