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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."

this is awesome news.

What about masturbating more than 20 times a week? Does that do anything additional for you? (Besides using up a lot of toilet paper?)

I only ask because I have a friend who doesn't have a computer and he is curious...

Come on men, is this even a possibility?

Has your friend ever heard of sublimation?

Google Image Search is a wonderful thing.

My friend told me to tell you not only has he not heard of sublimation but he can't even spell s u b l i m a t i o n.

Holy Cow! Maybe someone should introduce him to some women. I wouldn't want his hand to become a useless claw.

I don't see what the transition of a solid directly to gas has anything to do with it.

Of course, I don't know if we discussed that to any extent in thermodynamics. Solids tend not to be terribly useful for transfering heat and the like.

Perhaps one might think in terms of effecting a physical phase transition from solidly concrete endeavors (masturbation) to more gaseously ethereal activities (writing poetry, composing music).