YNOT EUROPE – At 14:00 Friday, June 4, in Helsinki’s Three Blacksmiths Square, the Helsinki Freethinkers will trade hardcore porn for religious literature.

Bibles, Korans and other religious books, magazines and tracts are eligible for the exchange, which will net participants material provided by Hustler and Jallou. The collected religious texts will be consigned to a lucrative wastepaper-recycling project.

According to a spokesman for the atheist organization Helsinki Freethinkers, the aim of the collection drive is to point out what the group considers hypocrisy in Christianity and Islam, in particular, and to present sexuality as a wholesome alternative to organized religion.

“Porn allows sexual arousal and pleasure, either alone or in company,” said Tommi Paalanen of the Helsinki Freethinkers. “Sexology studies have shown that in many ways sex — including masturbation — is good for health and state of mind. The world would be a more relaxed and happier place if people switched from the ‘holy’ book, to pornography.”