WINOOSKI, Vt. (TNA) – The opening ceremony of the Olympics isn’t the only global event happening on Aug. 8, it’s also the 10th annual International Orgasm Day, a day where citizens come together to come.

The hot-to-trot holiday is the brainchild of Alex Hirka, an artist and actor in Winooski, Vt., who came up the erotic idea, funnily enough, while listening to a discussion about soldiers.

“When armies walk across bridges, they usually break step because if you walk in step, you apply that much more force. You can actually cause damage by people walking in step,” he said. “That got me to thinking, ‘If you exerted positive energy at the same time, could that have an effect?’”

Once Hirka had that small thought, the concept for International Orgasm Day came gushing forth.

“I just thought that it would be great if people focused on [orgasms] for a day instead of whatever else,” he said. “It wouldn’t be a consumer holiday; it would be just a day to have fun.”

It’s a global event, but Hirka’s reasoning for picking Aug. 8 as the day was very personal: That day happens to be the birthday of Laurie, his partner of 12 years. It also helped that there was no other major celebration scheduled on the calendar.

“We make sure we’re together that day,” he said. “We’re in a polyamorous relationship, but we’ve been together for 12 years and it’s just become the focus to hang out together that day.”

Despite having a few other sex partners to turn to, Hirka says he “suspects” Laurie will be the only person who gets an orgasm from him on International Orgasm Day, but he’s not opposed to spicing things up in a different way.

“One year, we did it in two different countries one year,” he said. “I gave her one orgasm here in Vermont and then later in the evening in Montreal. If I lived in Europe, I’d try to do it in five countries.”

When Hirka organized his first Orgasm Day, he really didn’t know what to expect. However, one of the messages he did receive gave him confidence that he was on to something.

“The first year I put out Orgasm Day, I got a message from Arthur C. Clarke, the man who wrote ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’” Hirka said. “He wrote to tell me that in 1948 he wrote a short story called ‘Love Saves The Day’ that was basically about Earth having this potentially cataclysmic event and the only way to save it was for everyone to have an orgasm.

“He wrote to tell me that he thought of it first.”

Ten years later, International Orgasm Day keeps getting bigger. Although Hirka has no idea about how many people will be participating this year, he has been getting messages from people who are making plans.

“I just had a woman write me from California who has just written a book on sexuality and she’s launching her book on International Orgasm Day to be in sync with the holiday,” he said.

For the record, Hirka says any orgasm is acceptable whether it comes from solo sex, couples sex or even orgies, provided it takes place during the 24-hour period.

“I thought about trying to organize it down to the minute but it gets kind of complicated,” Hirka said. “If it becomes a Hallmark holiday, I might try to synchronize it, but, at this point, I figure focus on the 24 hours.”

Still, Hirka admits that if he could, he’d focus the holiday more on the sex then the end result.

“I focus on orgasm because that’s a generally understood thing, but I tend to think it’s the extra on top of great sex,” he said. “Great sex is not about orgasm. It’s a wonderful release of energy, but, if anything, I’d say that it’s the time and energy beforehand that matters.”

Although Hallmark has yet to sell International Orgasm Day greeting cards, Hirka’s horny holiday is inspiring others, such as San Francisco-based peace activists Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell, who created Global Orgasm Day back in 2006.

Hirka says imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but seems mildly perturbed by Sheehan and Reffell’s efforts.

“[The organizers] obviously had a better web designer or more money, but even down to copying my text, the way I have my web face set up, like why, when, where – it’s like, ‘Holy smoke, they just copied the entire format,” he said.

Although Hirka claims he’s written the Global Orgasm Day organizers teasing letters, he believes their event is a subtle tribute to him.

“The funny thing is, the people who did the other orgasm holiday set it for Dec. 22, which happens to be my birthday,” he said. “They didn’t know they were honoring me but they were. I wrote them saying, ‘If you had to pick a day for a second Orgasm Day, that’s a good one.’ But they don’t seem to want to respond to me. They seem kind of self serious.”

Hirka says the difference between the two Orgasm Days comes down to two philosophies.

“I’ve made a point that if people had orgasms [on International Orgasm Day], maybe there would be less war and there would be more playfulness on the planet for a day, but they’ve obviously taken the peace thing and turned it into a message of ‘This will create world peace,’ and I guess I’m a little more skeptical than that.”

Meanwhile, Reffell claims any similarities between Hirka’s International Orgasm Day and his own Global Orgasm Day are coincidental and that he didn’t even know about Hirka’s day until after the fact.

“We didn’t Google properly and we didn’t look for the other Global Orgasm Day until they wrote to us and told us about it,” Reffell said, quickly adding, “I think it’s wonderful.”

Besides the different days, Reffell also says he and Sheehan are less interested in the fun aspect of an orgasm and more into the cosmic implications.

“The real object of the Global O is to spread political news, political messages and to influence the energy field of the Earth with some positive consciousness,” Reffell said.

Hirka says his Orgasm Day is much more playful, which brings up the question: Can you take an orgasm too seriously?

Reffell says no.

“All orgasms are serious and very necessary,” Reffell said. “If we had fewer orgasms, the world would be a much worse place. So I think that the more orgasms we have the better, and that’s a serious thing.”

In fact, Reffell would like to see more people organizing orgasm days.

“Anyone who can organize a global orgasm is going to contribute greatly to the peace of the Earth,” he said. “But if we’re trying to get people to think more peacefully, then we need to get people not to just think of orgasms but to use them as a tool for something else. And that’s our idea, to try and influence the world.”

Just to prove his point, Reffell plans to join in on Hirka’s Orgasm Day, but says there are a few other guys who probably need an orgasm more than he does.

“Any man who is in power on this planet, any man who has a gun in his hand or who is thinking of blowing himself up or killing people, any man who wants to spray toxic pesticides on people’s food and any man who wants to do anything that destroys life on this planet should be having orgasms instead,” he said.

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