Originally Posted by avocet8
True. None of those things will happen.Here, though, are just one link among many reputable studies which suggest other outcomes to prolongued abstinence.
http://www.pros … org/mastur.html
Note that increased frequency of ejaculation corresponds with decreased risk of prostate cancer later in life.
We’ve already been through this as well - the exact article, in fact. The study deals with the "Role of ejaculation in the treatment of chronic non-bacterial prostatitis." A swollen prostate, in other words. This is a treatment for something which normal healthy people do not exhibit, and as such, cannot be taken as proof for outcome in otherwise healthy patients. The very fact that the patient base has a swollen prostate is the issue. If they didn’t, would the doctor have prescribed ejaculation as a treatment for the otherwise healthy population?
Yes, there are things we can take from studies that we can draw the next theory with. But to take it to the extreme and suggest that a person abstaining for two months is doing harm to their body is just stupid. The body has methods to dispose of unused swimmers. To suggest that harm is done is not based in reality or science, though possibly in new-age stuff. And for every "study on ejaculation shows reduced cancer", there’s a "cancer caused by kissing" waiting in the wings. The long and short is that there isn’t much real evidence on the subject, and to present it as such in favor of one’s own opinion is short sighted. Don’t get married to a theory. Doing so sets you up to use evidence rather than follow it. Take what we learn from the article, apply it to the population in question, and benefit. Don’t make it more than it is.
I’m the son of a physics professor. I’m skeptical by nature, and I’ve seen the ins and outs of politics + funding, and I know that the sum of the two is not pure results. I’m really leery of seeing things labelled as fact that are not. Given Zane’s standing as an author on sexual function, she should be careful in what she says. She’s welcome to the opinion she has, but should be prepared to back it up with real evidence rather than conjecture. Warning people that they could be doing harm to themselves by abstinence is pretty far off base.
Note that I’m not saying that ejaculation is not healthy - it very clearly is a healthy pursuit. But the lack of it won’t give you even so much as the cooties.