Masturbation May Increase Risk of Prostate Cancer

[n2doc]

By LiveScience Staff
posted: 26 January 2009 12:27 pm ET

A new study finds men who are sexually active in their 20s and 30s are more likely to develop prostate cancer — especially if they masturbate frequently.

The message, perhaps: Hold off until middle age.

The study also found that frequent sexual activity in a man's 40s appears to have little effect and even small levels of sexual activity in a man's 50s could offer protection from the disease. Most of the differences were attributed to masturbation rather than sexual intercourse.

The study, led by the University of Nottingham, looked at the sexual practices of more than 431 men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 60, together with 409 controls who do not have prostate cancer.

Among men with prostate cancer, 34 percent had masturbated frequently in their 20s, compared to 24 percent among the control group. A similar spread was found for men in their 30s.

The results, based on questionnaires, are detailed in the journal BJU International (the British Journal of Urology).

more:

http://www.livescience.com/health/090126-masturbation-prostate.html

[bitchkitty]

1. There has to be another reason.

Whacking off causing cancer? That old wive's tale about it falling off can't be true! Can it?

[DesertFlower]

4. or going blind?

[martymar64]

16. Just do it til you need glasses.

:bounce:

[naaman fletcher]

2. Where did they get the control group..

of people who don't masturbate frequently?

[n2doc]

5. Maybe it is really "liars get less Prostrate Cancer"

[targetpractice]

12. The control group is lying. (n/t)

[Loge23]

15. now that's comedy! great line! (eom)

[Hissyspit]

3. Oh, good grief.

What completely useless information.

A difference between 34 and 24 percent?

[Hugabear]

6. This is absolute bullshit. Who sponsored this study, Rick Warren?

Or perhaps it was Jerry Falwell's group.

[MNBrewer]

7. I'm doomed!

[Botany]

8. I am dead

So what do I have to do now? Please have sex with me if you don't want me to get cancer?

So if you had lots of sex you will get cancer .... if you didn't have a partner but instead
buffed the pole you will get cancer .... so no sex and no wanking and you do not get cancer?

[FormerDittoHead]

9. If the study in the OP were true, I would surely have been dead by now.

On the other "hand":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm
"Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'"

Sorry for the jokes, but they write themselves.

[Southpaw07]

11. Damn. You beat me (pun intended) to the punch line. n/t

[smoogatz]

10. Without having read the article--

did they test for HPV or other viruses? Were the frequent wankers any more likely to smoke, drink, eat red meat, etc.? I'll betcha higher libido leads to more risk-taking across the board, and that's your link. If there's any link at all, that is.

[progdonkey]

14. or where they jacking it so much because they couldn't get laid?

Maybe they were fat, drug-addicted or just all-around unhealthy in their 20s and could never get laid, so they spent more time masturbating than someone who had a regular partner. Or maybe the guys had larger than average penises, so they enjoyed masturbating more often, and it's actually having the larger penis that results in the higher incidence of prostate cancer for some reason

Or, you know, it's just all bullshit and very poorly designed study, which is often more likely in these sort of salacious reports.

[TlalocW]

13. I thought that masturbation was good for the prostate

Oh, well. Too late now. My prostate is either super-healthy or about to disintegrate.

TlalocW

[BootinUp]

17. Come on.... Find those docs or analysts something else to do. nt

[oldnslo]

18. Yet another medical study gets its name in the paper....yawn......

[HysteryDiagnosis]

19. Think of all the sperm that will be saved!! Hooray, creationism,

life, self flagellation, saying confession to a child molester, tithing and all the other glitter!!


Eat enough cruciferous vegetables and forget about it.

: In Vivo. 2008 Jul-Aug;22(4):441-5.Links
Review. Indole-3-carbinol as a chemoprotective agent in breast and prostate cancer.
Bradlow HL.

David and Alice Jurist Institute for Medical Research, Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA. [e-mail]

Assessment of the oral use of indole-3-carbinol (I3C) as a chemoprotective compound has not sufficiently considered the chemical instability of I3C. This review addresses the question of whether I3C is directly active in its own right or only serves as a precursor, with all of the biological responses coming from reaction products arising in culture media and in the presence of stomach acid. Because of the rapid conversion of I3C into its dimer. diindolylmethane (DIM), and trimers very little circulating I3C is present following oral use to effect a biological response. Reports of toxicity associated with oral use of I3C relate to unfavorable enzyme induction, which can be attributed to non-DIM reaction products. Because DIM provides a predictable, safer response than the mélange of compounds derived from I3C DIM should be regarded as the chemoprotective compound of choice.

[BeatleBoot]

20. Reminds me of Robin Williams Stand Up Act

"(Knock, knock, knock)....Robin what are you doing in there?"



"Going Blind!!!!!!!!"




B-)

[uppityperson]

21. Right, telling a 20 something "Hold off until middle age" might make women happier, but I doubt many

could or would.


Oh, you mean don't "masturbate". Sorry.

[varkam]

22. I'm screwed.

Ha! I kill me

[cosmik debris]

23. No, you're not screwed.

If you had been screwed, you wouldn't be jerkin off all the time.

[varkam]

24. Zing!

:rofl:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

25. Knock it off!

:rofl:

[dipsydoodle]

26. Ironically masturbation was prescribed

to help lower the PSA of a friend. The prescribed treatment was successful.........lol.

Make what you will of that especially if you're 65 years old as is he.

[xchrom]

27. yeah -- like that will ever happen.

what twenty something doesn't jerk off frequently?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

28. Glad I have good life insurance.

[NickB79]

29. Dueling studies: Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm

"Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest.

They say cancer-causing chemicals could build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly.

And they say sexual intercourse may not have the same protective effect because of the possibility of contracting a sexually transmitted infection, which could increase men's cancer risk.

Australian researchers questioned over 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer and 1,250 who had not about their sexual habits. "


These researchers need to get their story straight. I don't know if I'm coming or going :evilgrin: