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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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 Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer |
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Well that saves my ass! 
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SUMMARY: Researchers find that men who masturbate frequently are at a reduced risk of cancer.
Frequent masturbation may help men cut their risk of contracting prostate cancer, Australian researchers have found. It is believed that carcinogens may build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly, BBC News reported on Wednesday. The researchers surveyed more than 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer, and 1,250 men who had not. They found that men who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to get cancer. Men who ejaculated more than five times each week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.
Sexual intercourse may not have the same effect because of the higher risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, which could in turn raise the risk of cancer. "Had we been able to remove ejaculations associated with sexual intercourse, there should have been an even stronger protective effect of ejaculations," Graham Giles of the Cancer Council Victoria, who led the researchers, said in the article.
The prostate produces a fluid that is incorporated into ejaculation, which activates sperm and prevents them from sticking together. Studies on animals have shown that carcinogens like 3-methylchloranthrene can be harbored in the prostate. Frequent ejaculation encourages the cancer-inducing fluids to "flush out." (The Advocate)
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shifty
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:20 am Post subject: |
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What's the point of going to all that trouble and then getting ridden over by a bus??
Can't God like see what you're doing, even if you're doing it for all the right reasons? |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| <----- Lee Hyori wants to give me inspiration to prevent prostate cancer. She does indeed. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Aw, man! You beat me to it.
How did you pull that one off?
Let's give the guy a hand! (on second thought, no...)
I was about to post a message for Spliff that he doesn't need to worry so much about prostate cancer! |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: USA
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| shifty wrote: |
What's the point of going to all that trouble and then getting ridden over by a bus??
Can't God like see what you're doing, even if you're doing it for all the right reasons? |
He also masturbateth. Thus He alone did create the Milky Way. Thinkest thou there were a Big Bang? 'T would be sin!
Alas, 'tis a man aspiring 't be alone a shooting star, aspiring to be himself as God: him He condemneth. He holds on the other hand of judgement him who would aspire only to clear, to make clean, as a river its own bed, plumbing that be but his own: him He favors a righteous man. 'T is cleanliness that be near godliness.
Sit us then in a circle! But let us look upon no lowley avatar! Let us in prayer! |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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And for a little more detail...
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Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer
It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer.
A team in Australia led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne asked 1079 men with prostate cancer to fill in a questionnaire detailing their sexual habits, and compared their responses with those of 1259 healthy men of the same age. The team concludes that the more men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer.
The protective effect is greatest while men are in their twenties: those who had ejaculated more than five times per week in their twenties, for instance, were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life (BJU International, vol 92, p 211).
The results contradict those of previous studies, which have suggested that having had many sexual partners, or a high frequency of sexual activity, increases the risk of prostate cancer by up to 40 per cent. The key difference is that these earlier studies defined sexual activity as sexual intercourse, whereas the latest study focused on the number of ejaculations, whether or not intercourse was involved.
The team speculates that infections caused by intercourse may increase the risk of prostate cancer. "Had we been able to remove ejaculations associated with sexual intercourse, there should have been an even stronger protective effect of other ejaculations," they suggest. "Men have many ways of using their prostate which do not involve women or other men," Giles adds.
Macho exaggeration
Giles accepts the possibility that the men who completed the questionnaires could have lied about their habits. But he doubts this skewed the results, since questions about masturbation are unlikely to evoke the same macho exaggeration as questions about, say, number of sexual partners.
But why should ejaculating more often cut the risk of prostate cancer? The team speculates that ejaculation prevents carcinogens building up in the gland. The prostate, together with the seminal vesicles, secretes the bulk of the fluid in semen, which is rich in substances such as potassium, zinc, fructose and citric acid.
Generating the fluid involves concentrating these components from the bloodstream up to 600-fold - and this could be where the trouble starts. Studies in dogs show that carcinogens such as 3-methylcholanthrene, found in cigarette smoke, are also concentrated in prostate fluid.
"It's a prostatic stagnation hypothesis," says Giles. "The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them."
Sexual repertoire
His findings suggest an intriguing parallel between prostate cancer and breast cancer, as recent studies indicate that lactating reduces a woman's risk of breast cancer, perhaps because this also flushes out carcinogens. Alternatively, ejaculation might induce prostate cells to mature fully, making them less susceptible to carcinogens.
"All these mechanisms are totally speculative," cautions breast cancer expert Loren Lipworth of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Maryland.
But if the finding is confirmed, future health advice from doctors may no longer be restricted to diet and exercise. "Masturbation is part of people's sexual repertoire," says Anthony Smith, deputy director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
"If these findings hold up, then it's perfectly reasonable that men should be encouraged to masturbate," he says.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3942-masturbating-may-protect-against-prostate-cancer.html
There is a link in that article to the real article in the British Journal of Medicine.
So often, articles like this when cited in the media turn out to never exist. I generally try to find the original.
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BreakfastInBed
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| If only there were a way to smoke with my prostate, maybe I could break even. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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^^^^ Thanks, I consider that a compliment.  |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| It would be interesting to know if the residents of Onancock, Virginia, have a lower incidence of prostate cancer than the rest of America. |
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Tarmangani
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: the Calm
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| This is great news. I hope that they go on to discover that grabbing your nut sack prevents testicular cancer and that scratching your ass saves one from rectal cancer. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I daresay that prostate cancer may very well prevent masturbation |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Well then, that's very good news for all the wankers who regularly post on this forum. |
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yawarakaijin
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| Best news I've heard all day. |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| can "happy ending" massages thus be written off as health care expenses? |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Luke, chapter 4, verse 23  |
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