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platypus · 07-16-2003, 08:49 AM

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<b>Masturbation 'may prevent cancer' </b>

By Judy Skatssoon
16jul03

WHO cares if you go blind? An Australian study has found that frequent masturbation may protect men against prostate cancer in later life.

A team led by Professor Graham Giles, head of cancer epidemiology at the Cancer Council Victoria, questioned more than 2000 men about their past sexual habits as part of a wider prostate cancer study.

The men, half of whom had prostate cancer, were aged between 40 and 69 and recruited from Sydney, Melbourne and Perth between 1994-98.

The study indicated that men who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.

"What we found was men who ejaculated most in their twenties, thirties and forties had about a third less prostate cancer risk than men in the lowest category of ejaculation," Professor Giles told AAP.

"The men who were the high performers in terms of ejaculating had a third less prostate cancer risk than men who were in the lowest category of ejaculation."

He said one explanation for the apparent beneficial effects of self-pleasuring was that frequent ejaculation prevented semen from building up in the ducts, where it could potentially become carcinogenic.

"For seminal fluid to be made it has to be concentrated about 600 times," Prof Giles said.

"So semen is a very potent and strong brew of lots of chemicals which, because of their biological reactivity, could be carcinogenic if left to lie around."

The research is set to appear in the British Journal of Urology this weekend.

Prof Giles said the prostate may have more similarities with the breast than previously thought - particularly in relation to the development of cancer.

He said the prostate was a secretory organ like the breast, which produced milk, only it produced semen.

The researchers reasoned that just as breast feeding lowered a woman's risk of breast cancer, maybe liberal ejaculation could have the same beneficial effects for men.

Masturbation could also have the same positive effect on a young prostate gland as pregnancy had on breasts, Prof Giles said.

"It might be rather like a first full-term pregnancy forces the breast tissue to fully differentiate and become grown up cells," he said.

"Maybe intense sexual ejaculation at the time when the prostate has finished growing to maturity might actually help it bed down and become a fully developed gland, rather than having too many cells lying around in it."

Prof Giles said previous reports had found an increased risk of prostate cancer among prisoners and Roman Catholic priests, while other studies suggested that having large numbers of female partners may be a factor.

However, while the Cancer Council study found benefits from masturbation, it was unable to replicate the evidence about lots of sex with lots of women.

"In our study we found an effect for masturbation but we didn't find an effect for the number of female partners," he said.

Prof Giles said the study may have implications for prostate cancer patients who grew up at a time when the practice was frowned upon.

He said the findings of the study needed to be repeated by other researchers before they could be confidently claimed to be true.

Until then, men could breathe easy, he said.

"I really think that masturbation is a quite normal human activity, and if the habit can also be shown to be healthy and beneficial, why not?"

<b>Gotta love them Aussies. Givin' us another reason to wank.

As if Kylie wasn't enough...</b>

Jesus Pimp · 07-16-2003, 10:00 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if jacking off really does help prevent cancer. Good blood flow and release of chemicals does a body good.

Mongolguy · 07-16-2003, 04:18 PM

I'm gonna live forever!!!

Eviltree · 07-16-2003, 04:51 PM

Hmm, now at least I have an excuse.

Meridae'n · 07-16-2003, 05:09 PM

The anti 'I wank too much' thread!

God bless our Aussie scientists. Where else can you get a bunch of boffins to tell us it's alright to wank, drink, smoke drugs, take ecstacy, be promiscuis...

Give 'em enough money and they'll prove whatever you want!

fugue_life · 07-16-2003, 05:59 PM

Come on, they provide us with beer that comes in larger cans!!! And gave us the witty charm of Paul Hoagan (Croc. DunDee to the young-ens) how could we not trust them. Im sure the fact that genetically they come from Old Englands underbelly doesn't even register.... O and yes I wanked it after I read the article

mrquackers · 07-16-2003, 06:21 PM

MrsQuackers (from upstairs): "What are you DOING down there??"

me: "Preventing you from being widowed at an early age!"

platypus · 07-17-2003, 05:55 AM

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Originally posted by fugue_life
...genetically they come from Old Englands underbelly...

So do we.

Taliesin · 07-17-2003, 06:05 AM

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Originally posted by mrquackers
me: "Preventing you from being widowed at an early age!"

I predict that this will be the new "Killing a kitten". I expect it to show up on Fark any day now.

fugue_life · 07-17-2003, 11:44 AM

good point platypus, although I don't feel you quite grasped the sarcasm in my post, but thats alright, I forgive you, here, hold my Fosters while I wack it a bit

07-16-2003, 10:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jesus Pimp The Original JizzSmacka	I wouldn't be surprised if jacking off really does help prevent cancer. Good blood flow and release of chemicals does a body good. __________________ Never date anyone who doesn't make your dick hard.

07-16-2003, 05:09 PM	#5 (permalink)
Meridae'n Loose Cunt Location: North Bondi RSL	The anti 'I wank too much' thread! God bless our Aussie scientists. Where else can you get a bunch of boffins to tell us it's alright to wank, drink, smoke drugs, take ecstacy, be promiscuis... Give 'em enough money and they'll prove whatever you want! __________________ What's easier to believe: that a guy was born without sex in the manner of several Greek demigods and grew up to be able to transmute liquids and alter his body density yet couldn't escape government execution, or that three freemasons in a vehicle made with aluminum foil in an era before digital technology escaped our atmosphere, landing on the moon, broadcasted from there, and then flew back without burning up?

07-16-2003, 05:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
fugue_life Insane Location: under the stairs	Come on, they provide us with beer that comes in larger cans!!! And gave us the witty charm of Paul Hoagan (Croc. DunDee to the young-ens) how could we not trust them. Im sure the fact that genetically they come from Old Englands underbelly doesn't even register.... O and yes I wanked it after I read the article __________________ ba-weep=gra=na-weep-nini-bon?

07-16-2003, 06:21 PM	#7 (permalink)
mrquackers Exhausted Location: Northeastern US - please send help!	MrsQuackers (from upstairs): "What are you DOING down there??" me: "Preventing you from being widowed at an early age!" __________________ "If you're walking on thin ice, you may as well go ahead and dance."

07-17-2003, 11:44 AM	#10 (permalink)
fugue_life Insane Location: under the stairs	good point platypus, although I don't feel you quite grasped the sarcasm in my post, but thats alright, I forgive you, here, hold my Fosters while I wack it a bit __________________ ba-weep=gra=na-weep-nini-bon?

07-16-2003, 04:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
Mongolguy Crazy Location: My own little world. 'Cause they know me there.	I'm gonna live forever!!!

07-16-2003, 04:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
Eviltree Psycho Location: British Columbia	Hmm, now at least I have an excuse.