Sex enthusiasts nationwide are bracing this week for eroticism's biggest annual charity event outside of April's Million Masturbator March and October's Cunnilingus Across America. This year's "Olympics of Sex", the Silver Sperm Invitational, promises to draw more than ten thousand people to the OfficeMax Arena in downtown Detroit, each of whom will pay up to two hundred dollars for a ticket to watch the most beautiful and coitally talented couples in the world shnazz in direct competition. Last year's Invitational raised over two million dollars for the Clumpman Fund, an organization dedicated to ensuring that underprivileged citizens in third world countries can gain proper access to nude photos of Helen Hunt.
Each year's competition also launches its winner to sexual prominence. In 2001, Germany's brilliant Ingrid and Ungrid Himmelgraut gadoogled their way to nearly perfect scores and a four-year deal to create their own Amsterdam live sex revue, as well as star in a series of commercials for Burger King's new taco fries. Modern Wangie magazine here offers the following power ranking preview of this year's lucky and ambitious competitors, so you can get the early jump on the inside scoop, buzz-wise:
10. RUSSIA— Ilsa Androvna and Ilyich Varsa
ODDS OF WINNING: 100 to 1
PREVIOUS BEST SHOWING: 41st
Rumor has it that Ilsa and Ilyich, this year's truest underdogs, have been looking to replace iron-fisted coach Boris "The Sickle" Popov, whose vocal criticism of Ilyich's premature ejaculation in last year's qualifying round made unpleasant waves. But three coaches in seven years haven't been able to correct Ilyich's habit of popping too early, and not even his infamously brutal training technique—for up to eight hours each day, he rapidly swaps his eighth wonder between Ilsa's mouth and a bucket of ice-cold Baltic seawater—could stop him from erupting inside Ilsa only eighty-eight seconds into their routine last May. The sight of his sad Soviet sperm leaking down his enraged partner's thigh was one of the year's most disappointing erotic sights, as was Popov's attempt to shoot them both with a crossbow for once again destroying his dream before a crowd of 9,373 at Madison Square Garden.
9. INDIA — Brahda and Narahda Pettalan
ODDS OF WINNING: 90 to 1
PREVIOUS BEST SHOWING: 28th
Critics claim that the Pettalans' insistence on attempting woman-on-top anal intercourse keeps them from making it to the final round year after year. This intricate maneuver has only been completed successfully twice in competitive sex since 1996, and the second success was clouded by accusations that the Norwegian couple involved had used an outside lubricant—the death knell of international rules violations. Brahda and Narahda's usual routine is just that—routine, a nine-minute progression from kissing to fingering to oral sex to slow and rythmic yoidling, all set to Bryan Adams' reliable "Everything I Do (I Do For You)", and it seems the couple can think of no other way to wow the judges at the end than to get Narahda's thing up Brahda's admittedly spectacular pluto. But the triple-axle of sex continues to elude them, resulting in last October's semi-final collapse at The Mercedes-Benz Horizontal Challenge when it seemed Narahda had no clue just where his penis was headed.
8. CANADA — Jessie McDonough and Timmy Gilford
ODDS OF WINNING: 72 to 1
PREVIOUS BEST SHOWING: 3rd
Canada's beloved young couple, who seem to represent all that is wholesome and innocent about British Columbia's majestic heartland, shnazzed each other so beautifully in last year's finals that two judges were seen to have tears in their eyes. It was only the fact that Jessie so obviously did not reach smiley-face that cost them their long-yearned-for crown. Indeed, it seems that in recent competitions, the couple's admittedly stunning grace while shnazzing only results in an orgasm for Jessie about seventy percent of the time. Some believe that it will take more than a feather touch and a caring tongue from Gilford to get the desired highest mountain from Jessie in the future, and she has confided to friends that she wishes "Timmy would just ease up with the delicacy once in a while and shnazz my Canadian brains out". Gilford remains committed, however, to the old school theory that sex should be a poetic display of love, and even when ramming his partner doggie-style to the tune of U2's "Desire"—quite a bold maneuver for the both of them, considering their angelic image—he seems oddly Zen-like. They have an outside shot at the title this year if Jessie can get off convincingly in the judge's eyes.
7. MEXICO — Anna Cruz and Enrique Romo