Whack it all you want!!!!!

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352278,00.html

Study: Masturbation May Prevent Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Men who frequently masturbate appear to have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, Australian researchers have reported.

Researchers from the Cancer Council of Victoria found that men who masturbated more than five times each week were a third less likely to develop the cancer.

The study surveyed 1,000 men who developed prostate cancer and 1,250 men who did not, between the ages of 20 and 50, according to a report on the Web 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.

[MikeVic]

So you can go in public places now and if you get approached by a cop, just say you're preventing prostate cancer. And then the cop starts going at it. And it keeps on escalating with more people, until further research proves it to be false. And no one ever speaks of the public masturbation again.

[Ksyrup]

Something seems a bit fishy here...how did they find that many men who masturbate less than 5 times a week?!

[Mustang]

I'm gonna whack whack whack all day...

Gonna whack those prostate blues awaaaaaaaay..

[Critch]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n14022352

Pizza wards off prostate cancer too. That's why God gave men two hands.

[Ksyrup]

Looks like someone beat them to this conclusion 5 years ago, but they decided to toss off the results until they could rub out a study of their own.


Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer

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Douglas Fox, AdelaideIt 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 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1464-410X.2003.04319.x)).

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.

[Drake]

The important question is: what ratio of spanking it do I need to maintain in order to counteract all the coffee I drink?

[SackAttack]

I think they're probably using the wrong word here.

Regular masturbation is only a means to the end. It's the regular ejaculation that they think lowers the risk of cancer.

They probably just assumed that most guys don't have five-times-a-week sex, so masturbation is the next best thing.

[JeeberD]

Looks like someone beat them to this conclusion 5 years ago, but they decided to toss off the results until they could rub out a study of their own.

And it was reported here. Hell, you even posted in that thread, K...

Masturbation may prevent cancer! - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=11560)

Edit: Whoa...I only posted the link. I didn't tell it to show the thread title. :eek:

[Pumpy Tudors]

OK I'M MASTURBATING

WHAT NOW GUYS

[cartman]

OK I'M MASTURBATING

WHAT NOW GUYS

Eat a slice of pizza

[Drake]

Masturbation may prevent cancer! - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=11560)

Edit: Whoa...I only posted the link. I didn't tell it to show the thread title. :eek:

Okay, that's pretty f'ing cool. Is that a new board hack (like the new blinking "Unread" for PM's)?

[Ksyrup]

Masturbation not only causes blindness, but forgetfulness. Or maybe that's misremembering. One or the other.

[JeeberD]

Okay, that's pretty f'ing cool. Is that a new board hack (like the new blinking "Unread" for PM's)?


I'm guessing they're related. Did the board software just get updated?

[Drake]

RyanS is pretty handy. It wouldn't surprise me if he was updating stuff.

Plus, he has that dead-sexy Scottish accent.

[Pumpy Tudors]

RyanS is pretty handy.
So no prostate cancer for him, then.

[Crim]

I guess I'd rather be blind than have cancer, so here goes...

[Crim]

Dammit, this thread is useless without pron pics!

[Crim]

Umm, better edit that out, Mizzou.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Umm, better edit that out, Mizzou.

NSFW tag isn't enough?

[Crim]

Uhh, move along, nothing to see...

[JeeberD]

NSFW tag isn't enough?

No links to porn sites. So good job in deleting that post...

[Maple Leafs]

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... studies show that carcinogens such as 3-methylcholanthrene, found in cigarette smoke, are also concentrated in prostate fluid.

In other news, married women are apparently at no risk for developing throat cancer.