Health Alert: Lower Your Chances of Prostate Cancer

Foxnews.com - Men who frequently masturbate appear to have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, Australian researchers reported.Researchers from the Cancer Council of Victoria found that men who masturbated more than five times each week were one-third less likely to develop the cancer. The study surveyed 1,000 men who developed prostate cancer and 1,250 who did not, and all were between the ages of 20 and 50, according to a report on Monday on the gay and lesbian news site PlanetOut. Researchers told the BBC last week that the prostate produces one of the fluids involved in ejaculation and that frequent masturbation appears to flush out carcinogens.Sexual intercourse may not have the same effect because it increases the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, which could raise the risk of cancer, the Web site reported.

BarStoolSports.com Comments: Listen I’m just as happy as the next guy about these findings, but was it really worth spending time on this study?     I mean what guy doesn’t beat off at least 5 times a week?   This is like holding a press conference to announce that guys who stand up at least 5 times a week are less likely to have a heart attack.   Thanks for the update, but how does this help anybody?    Now if you tell me that guys who jerk off 100 times a week are 1/2 as likely to get cancer then that is a different story.   I’ll start beating off around the clock.  But don’t try and act like you’re changing lives when you tell people to just keep on keeping on.  

~ by ondaclock on April 27, 2008.