Alan Cumming video shows how you can keep your mind off sex - and donate blood
Alan Cumming, the Scots actor now a huge name across America from his role in the Good Wife to his starring role in Cabaret, has made a video mocking the US Food and Drink Administration, which advises ending the ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but insists that these men must remain celibate for a least a year in order to be eligible donors.
The rationale, according to AdAge, is that sexually-active homosexual men are at greater risk of contracting and transmitting HIV.
Non-profit organizations GLAAD and the Gay Men's Health Crisis worked with Saatchi and Saatchi New York to produce the video, in which Cumming has a list of activities for you to occupy your time while you are trying to trying to abstain from sex.
He poses as the head of the "Department of Sexual Abstinence," and suggests a host of seemingly innocent time-wasters to keep men's minds off doing the dirty.
AdAge reported: “The thing with trying not to think about something, though, is that you end up seeing it everywhere. Especially in this PSA. From phallic pottery shapes to hip-thrusting yoga moves, abstainers may not be able to escape sexual imagery."
The sponsoring organisations propose a petition to revise blood donation guidelines, such requiring all donors to be screened based on exposure to risk and not sexual orientation.