Masturbation and prostate health

Okay, I have seen on some talk shows that some doctors have said that a man needs at least 21 ejaculations a month to help keep his prostate clean and healthy.It has to do with the semen flowing over the prostate during ejaculation and whatever it is in semen, cleanses the gland. That means at least 5 ejaculations a week.

Now, I have been reading on some threads that guys are holding off for weeks to gain sensitivity or doing whatever it takes to have better sex. I can fully understand what they are saying. We all want to feel more, or please our partner, but is it worth withholding from jacking off for such long periods of time for these reasons? Especially for the guys that are not having sex very often. I will be 54, and while my wife and I still have awesome sex, its not near as often as I would like or as often as it was “back in the day”!!! Maybe I am selfish or self centered,or whatever you want to call it, but during the down times, I take care of myself!! My wife will even ask me sometimes if I have “taken care of business”, then she says “remember what the doctors say”!!

I have watched my dad, my uncle, and my father-in-law go through prostate issues,thank God not cancer, but enlarged,or infections, and its not something I want to go through if I can help it. Just wondering if anybody else in the “Prostate Years” feel the same.I work out and try to eat right for all the other health reasons, am I making too much of masturbation?? I mean it feels great, so far it hasn’t affected how I perform. I can’t imagine going weeks without while I still can and still want to!! Just looking for other thoughts on this, want to keep you guys healthy!!!!LOL

By the way, my last PSA was like 0.52 out of 4.0

I don’t think it has to do with semen flowing over the prostate, skyfine55. At least one explanation I have seen hypothesizes that the beneficial effect has to do with flushing fluids from the prostate rather than letting them stagnate there.

Apparently it is even possible to have something akin to kidney stones pass during ejaculation. That would sound like another good reason to have regular ejaculations, so that fluids there ‘moved along’ rather than having the chance to crystallize.

“… prostatic calculi (stones) are very common in men and gradually increase in frequency as we age. However, they are generally asymptomatic and rarely come out during ejaculation. These stones have the same chemical composition as urinary stones and one theory is that they are caused by urine backing up into the prostatic ducts (that empty into the prostatic portion of the urethra). The latter phenomenon is often due to having a restriction (stricture - narrow area) in the urethra. When the voided urine reaches the stricture, eddy currents develop and some urine is swept into the prostatic ducts.”

I very much believe in the theory that frequent ejaculation is good for your health. I am also a firm believer in the use it or lose it theory.

I must have the healthiest prostate in the history of man. :)

Just do it & enjoy.

hey, good answer Joystick, good answer!! I love it!! You and me both. LOL

A friend of mine was having prostate problems a few years ago and went to see a urologist. He paid this guy a lot of money to be told basically to go home and have wank! I laughed at this at the time, but now I see there is an important message here.

Oh boy. Due to low sex drive and being single, I ejaculate at most twice a week.

Guess I`m in trouble :D

When prostrate fluids oxidize, they form carcinogenic compounds that remain in contact with the prostate tissue…….leading to prostate cancer. I read this theory on a urology forum. The solution…ejaculate daily to remove the fluid before it has a chance to oxidize. If this is true…..i would have to live to the age of 523 years old to develop prostate cancer….cause even at age 63, I ejaculate 2-6 times a day.

That’s good! I do well here lately to get in 3 ejaculations per week, I’m 46.

KP, I’m 46 as well. Been away from the wife for the past 7 months and since Dec 09 have probably only jacked off 3-4 times. It started with a discussion over self control with an LDS friend who stated he NEVER in his life jacked off. So I tried it (not doing it) for a while. Edged quite a bit with remarkable 100% EQ and lots of pre-cum but didn’t let it reach PONR. I don’t think this has effected my libido and I haven’t had any problems with ‘blueballs’ or anything. When I have cum it’s been the same as before but I guess it’s just wanting to wait to be with my spouse instead of wiping it off and throwing it away. Besides I’m living in a shared room and that’s a bit of a killjoy as well. Good news is I should be home in a couple weeks at the latest. Have you noted any difference in the past few years libido wise or any EQ changes?

These are the kind of replies I was hoping to get. MagnumXL makes a great point about the prostate fluids. I know that things slow down as we age and maybe for some sex is not as regular as one would like. This makes me wonder as I hear and see so many older men with prostate issues,if they are just not aware of how important ejaculation is for the health of the prostate.I am not suggesting that it will totally prevent cancer, but if it helps keep it healthy, it is one of the easiest exercises I have ever done. MagnumXL, you are my idol!!! I can only hope when I reach 63 that I will be half as good as you!!!LOL Thanks guys!!!

Eating Walnuts might also help, according to some recent research in newspapers in the last few days.

I have found an interesting post which can be interesting for older Masturbatoren.

Frequent ejaculation protects against prostate cancer

Bethesda / Maryland (Pte) - According to an American study with more than 30,000 subjects, it seems clear that frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation are obviously protecting against prostate cancer. The study, conducted by researchers of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda over a period of eight years, was actually aimed at questioning the theory that too often sex leads to prostate cancer, reports the science magazine New Scientist Http: // Www. Newscientist.com. The results of the large-scale US study, conducted by Michael Leitzmann and his team, testify to a study by Australian researchers. This also concluded in July 2003 that frequent ejaculation was obviously protecting against prostate cancer. Thus, men ejaculated about 21 times a month developed a third of rare prostate cancer as the reference group, who had ejaculation about four to seven times a month. In the American study, thousands of healthy men were first questioned, then cancer patients, whose sexual habits were subsequently retrospectively evaluated. At the start of the study, men were questioned with questionnaires about the frequency of their ejaculation. These questionnaires were issued every two years. “When the ejaculation frequency is increased from four to seven times a month to three ejaculations a week, the rate of cancer is decreasing by 15 percent,” says Leitzmann, who, however, refrains from changing Herren sexual behavior. However, the researchers see several reasons for the advantage of frequent ejaculations: the prostate gland is cleansed by ejaculation. In addition, ejaculation also ensures that crystalline Mikroverkalkungen can not form. These are also associated with the development of prostate cancer. However, Graham Giles, author of the Australian study, argues that the ejaculation frequency of teenagers was not included in either study. Perhaps there is already a key here for the formation of prostate cancer. “Further studies need to be followed, but one thing seems clear in both studies: orgasms are not dangerous and protect against prostate cancer”.