Study: Masturbation Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk

The gift that keeps on giving:

Masturbation

Masturbating Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk -Study

LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer (news - web sites) later in life, according to new research.

Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.

They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a protective effect against the cancer because it prevents dangerous carcinogens from building up in the gland.

“The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them,” Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.

In a survey of 1,079 prostate cancer patients and 1,259 healthy men, Giles and his team discovered that men who ejaculated more than five times a week in their 20s were a third less likely to develop an aggressive form of the disease.

The findings contradict previous studies which suggested that having a variety of partners or frequent sexual activity could increase the risk of prostate cancer by 40 percent.

But Giles said the earlier research concentrated on intercourse, whereas his study focused on masturbation. Infections caused by sexual activity could account for the different findings.

“Men have many ways of using their prostate which don’t involve women or other men,” he added.

Thanks SS. I boosted the text because Yahoo has a nasty habit of deleting news items after a couple of days. Maybe someone will come up with a link to the study itself.

I have immunity then. Though I did spend a fortune on tissues and wetnaps. ;)

Thanks Thunder!

TT - And to think, those tissues and wetnaps sacrificed their dryness for your prostate. Rest In Peace little tissues. Rest In Peace. :)

Not to mention the trees, the poor trees! Well, one life for another—it’s nature at work.

Just what this group needs!! A reason to play with it more LOLOL!!

OK where do I sign up?
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I’m not worried just now about prostate cancer so much as prostatitis which I used to get every 2 mos or so. So far 4 urologists (3 whom I’ve been examined by and one who is a Net friend) have told me that “frequent” ejaculation is very important to prostate health.

One, the latest and the one I trust the most said that was one of my prescriptions, though he didn’t write it out. Among several Rx’s, that one is the best. He’s a fun guy and said that that prescription is renewable without my having to call him.

I hate the theads about sex or masturbation being a negative to PE. That just isn’t so and the benefits to frequent ejaculation - however you get there - are so important.

I guess I may have to increase my wanking frequency then, LOL!

>I hate the threads about sex or masturbation being a negative to PE. That just isn’t so and the benefits to frequent ejaculation - however you get there - are so important<

I don’t believe climaxing after PE workout is a hindrance to gains. I did it a lot of times right after exercising and it did not stop me from gaining.