Masturbation...It's not just for pleasure anymore. - It could help save your life

[Faceman]

Finally a research project that not only effects most of us personally but also could help us all down the road...

LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research.

Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop 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 on Wednesday.


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.


The findings contradict previous studies which suggested that having a variety of partners or frequent sexual activity could increase the risk of prostate cancer by 40 percent.


But Giles said 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 added.



:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: Isn't science great. I don't know about you, but I would like to thank Hugh Hefner for prolonging my life another couple of years.

[Keyser Soze]

is this teenweek week?

[Faceman]

Look at it like this, now you can share this information with your guido friends down the shore and have one big "Spank the Sausage" party.

[Goatweed]

while they shave each other's backs :lol:

[Arpikarhu]

doctors said that jerking off was a good way to prevent prostate cancer over ten years ago. this isnt even new news. i f am going to rely on you people , you are going to have to give me current news at least

[Keyser Soze]

thanks, i'll pass that info along to Vinny and Carmine :::wokka wokka:::

[Arpikarhu]

why the wokka wokka? you know its not that far from the truth

[Faceman]

why the wokka wokka? you know its not that far from the truth

Which part? The fact that he's going to tell this to people, or that he does in fact hang out with guys named vinne and carmine?

[Keyser Soze]

keep believing those sterotypes, internet geek boy.

[Faceman]

keep believing those sterotypes, internet geek boy.

please stop, your cruel words wound me

[Arpikarhu]

i will jersey guido. we saw the pics, we all know its true. i bet all of the girls in your beach pics were named either gina or gloria.

[Keyser Soze]

i'll hang out with gina and gloria while you two protect yourselves from prostate cancer.

[Faceman]

i'll hang out with gina and gloria while you two protect yourselves from prostate cancer.

...and then afterwards protect yourself from prostate cancer while thinking about Gina and Gloria

[Arpikarhu]

i bet you take all of your dates to the TGIF in the paramus mall.

[Keyser Soze]

i protect myself from prostate cancer the old fashioned way.

[Arpikarhu]

lie about it?

[Faceman]

Have yearly exams??????

[Keyser Soze]

one geek at a time please.

[Faceman]

So is your turn over then?

[Keyser Soze]

i can't compete with this comedic genius. you win.