Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer

This is another situation where the absolutisms of the "law" change with time.
Unlike gravity, which doesn't care what anyone does or believes, the initial sin and retribution wasn't against self "abuse" but failing to Onan's failure impregnate his brother's widow. Boinked her, but withdrew. Who among us hasn't committed those sins?
Choking the chicken OTOH has been observed on ultrasound of the fetus.
Yet that is the "crime/sin", not the first, today.
One would hope an absolute sin way back when would always be the same thru time, death as it is being so permanent.
J the R, just keep doing it (or restart), and check back in 53 years from now.
 
from article said:
Frequent masturbation may help men cut their risk of contracting prostate cancer, ...
Men who ejaculated more than five times each week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.
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Frequent = 5 times/week

This just in: Scientists discover that men often confuse week for day when describing their frequency of masturbation.
 
This news is three or four years old, but it's always nice to see a fresh crop of jokes.
 
I seem to recall a similar thread where someone made the effort to look up follow-up research on this showing that it's not really true.
 
bjornart said:
I seem to recall a similar thread where someone made the effort to look up follow-up research on this showing that it's not really true.
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Well there's this:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/13/1578

Results During 222 426 person-years of follow-up, there were 1449 new cases of total prostate cancer, 953 organ-confined cases, and 147 advanced cases of prostate cancer. Most categories of ejaculation frequency were unrelated to risk of prostate cancer. However, high ejaculation frequency was related to decreased risk of total prostate cancer. The multivariate relative risks for men reporting 21 or more ejaculations per month compared with men reporting 4 to 7 ejaculations per month at ages 20 to 29 years were 0.89 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.73-1.10); ages 40 to 49 years, 0.68 (95% CI, 0.53-0.86); previous year, 0.49 (95% CI, 0.27-0.88); and averaged across a lifetime, 0.67 (95% CI, 0.51-0.89). Similar associations were observed for organ-confined prostate cancer. Ejaculation frequency was not statistically significantly associated with risk of advanced prostate cancer.
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It's an observational study, so drawing conclusions about cause and effect are difficult.

I'm not sure how many men would be happy to take part in a randomized study if they ended up in the 'no ejaculation' group.:)

Would we expect to see a higher incidence of prostate cancer in priests?
 
From rex's link:

Anthony Smith, deputy director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Melbourne, said the research could affect the kind of lifestyle advice doctors give to patients.

"Masturbation is part of people's sexual repertoire.

"If these findings hold up, then it's perfectly reasonable that men should be encouraged to masturbate," he said.
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Did I miss the ad campaign, or is this the reason for much of channel 4 and five's content?
 
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