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Masturbating Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk - Study

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:57 pm
by Timelessblur
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
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:29 pm
by Robpol86
thats one less thing 2 worry about!




LMAO

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:41 pm
by Walker
LMAO! That Was a Good One!

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:58 pm
by jester22c
rationalization at it's best... truly pitiful :roll:

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:38 pm
by fuuucckkers
I heard about this on the radio. 98 Rock was talking about it.. rather funny. :lol:

If that's true.. I have nothing to worry about then :roll:

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 10:00 pm
by insomica
Silly boys.

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 10:21 pm
by DADINK13
Yea Micah...you get ass every night....













No married man gets ass every night.

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 10:28 pm
by Walker
Lats Time I checked It Was Every Other Night... LOL

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:00 pm
by ashtray
this is pathetic.

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 2:59 am
by insomica
No one said I got it everynight or everyother night. I had to go with out for almost 6weeks :'( .

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:55 am
by DADINK13
You almost forgot nine months.. :wink:

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 11:20 am
by []DaT_MaNN03
this is quite a good discovory.

High five to masturbating