Post by Henrik on Jul 22, 2003 4:30:11 GMT -5
Stumbled across the following piece of news this morning.
I like the "I don't believe in the blidness and hairy palms theory"!
Frequent masturbation may be really good for you.
Research by Australia's Cancer Council Victoria found that the more often men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to suffer 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.
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.
"For men in their 50s of course that's often not achievable," says Graham Giles, who led the research team.
"(But) masturbation isn't bad for you. I don't believe in the blindness and hairy palms theory. Prohibitions against ejaculations are not based on science," he says.
Giles says the findings correlate with previous research that showed Roman Catholic priests were 30 percent more likely to get prostate cancer, however they contradict other studies that suggested having a variety of partners or frequent sex could lift the risk by 40 percent.
But he says 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 adds.
The research is due to be published in this weekend's British Journal of Urology International .
Reuters
Research by Australia's Cancer Council Victoria found that the more often men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to suffer 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.
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.
"For men in their 50s of course that's often not achievable," says Graham Giles, who led the research team.
"(But) masturbation isn't bad for you. I don't believe in the blindness and hairy palms theory. Prohibitions against ejaculations are not based on science," he says.
Giles says the findings correlate with previous research that showed Roman Catholic priests were 30 percent more likely to get prostate cancer, however they contradict other studies that suggested having a variety of partners or frequent sex could lift the risk by 40 percent.
But he says 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 adds.
The research is due to be published in this weekend's British Journal of Urology International .
Reuters
I like the "I don't believe in the blidness and hairy palms theory"!
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