It looks like two can play at the "grab-and-borderline-violate-each-other’s-privates-in-the-name-of-charity" game.


Back in October, a trio of pickup artists got a rise out of the Internet when it went around motorboating (read: pressing faces into women’s boobs) in order to raise funds for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Their $7,000 donation was swiftly rejected by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation[1] , but their crass approach to raising funds hasn’t gone away.


Perhaps in response to the motorboating moneymaker, Merci Handi[2] –- a French hand sanitizer company -- decided to get a bunch of women together to cup strangers’ crotches in return for a $13.50 donation for men's cancer charities, Blame It On The Voices[3] reported. After all, it is Movember, the month when advocates grow moustaches and raise money and awareness for prostate and testicular cancers.


While the women managed to raise $700,[4] according to Gawker, we’re still kind of just missing the days of reaching straight from the wallet to the donation jar.


Whatever your thoughts are on groping-for-charity, consider learning more about Movember, and the ways in which you can improve the lives of guys facing men’s cancers here. [5]




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  • The Moustache Master, Salvador Dali


    Need we say more? Image: Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane taken in 1953.




  • Paul Gauguin's Double Moustache


    It's a double moustache. Image: Self-portrait (in the role of 'Les Misérables' protagonist Jean Valjean) with Émile Bernard portrait in the background, for Vincent, 1888.




  • Gustave Courbet's Handlebar French Fork


    Don't freak out, Courbet. Your french fork is coming in fine. Image: Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man, 1844-45




  • Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa


    Marcel Duchamp celebrates Movember with Mona Lisa. Image: Marcel Duchamp, "L.H.O.O.Q.", 1919




  • Albrecht Durer's Handlebar and Goatee


    The perm-esque hair really compliments the curled moustache. Kudos, Albrecht, on your daring moustache. Image: Albrecht Durer, "Self-portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe", 1500




  • Edouard Manet's Spanish Singer Pencil 'Stache


    We can't decide what we like more: the singer's pencil moustache or his seductive facial expression. Image: Edouard Manet, "Spanish Singer", 1860.




  • Vincent van Gogh's Walrus 'Stached Man


    The good ol' Walrus moustache. Great likeness, Mr. van gogh. Image: Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a Man with a Moustache, Paris, Winter 1886/87




  • Frida Kahlo's AMAZING Moustache


    Frida Kahlo forever proving the old addage "Whatever you can do I can do better." Image: Frida Kahlo, "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940)




  • Caravaggio's 'Stache and Chin Puff Combo


    You're not looking your best, Caravaggio, but we dig your chin puff/soul patch situation. Image: A portrait of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. 1621.




  • Peter Paul Reubens Handlbar


    Such a well-coiffed 'stache, Reubens. Image: Peter Paul Reubens, Self-portrait, 1623




  • Modigliani's Pencil


    Another styling pencil courtesy of Modigliani. Image: Amadeo Modigliani, Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota, 1915




  • Edvard Munch's Pencil


    Munch's somber 'stache. Image: Edvard Munch, Self Portrait with Skeleton Arm, 1895




  • Anthony van Dyck's Handlebar and Chin Puff


    Van Dyck being all coy and mustachioed. Image: Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait, c. 1633




  • The Original Dracula's Caterpillar 'Stache


    Vlad, you've been haunting our slideshow dreams lately, but we'd be remiss if we didn't include your caterpillar mustache today. Image: Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia, c. 1500s




  • Frans Hals's Enthusiastic Mustache


    Hal's 'stache is so good it has its own shadow. Image: Frans Hals, Self-portrait, c. 1650




  • Rainer Maria Rilke's Gaping Chin Puff


    Mouth agape + moustache = true beauty. Image: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Porträt des Rainer Maria Rilke, 1906




  • The Company School's Nearly-Friendly Mutton Chops


    So close to being friendly mutton chops. So close. Image: Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life by South East Asian artists collectively known as the Company School, c. 1820




  • Bernini's Puff


    "Ok, so every artist did a handlebar-puff combo. I get it." Image: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Self-portrait, c. 1635




  • James I of England


    Um, you might be distracted by this man's gigantic pants, but there's a blonde 'stache in there somewhere. We promise. Image: Paul van Somer, James I of England (James VI of Scotland), c. 1618




  • So. Many. Moustaches.


    Many, many moustaches a la Cornelis van Haarlem. Image: Cornelis van Haarlem, Banquet of the officers and sub-alterns of the Haarlem Calivermen Civic Guard, 1599