Preventing prostate cancer can be fun? Huh?  Well, it seems that regular masturbation and ejaculation provides a protective effect from prostate cancer. (Who knew?) Here’s the scoop from New Scientist:

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). read full article…

If preventing all forms of cancer were this fun, I think the world would be a much better place, don’t you?

Tags: cancer, prevention, sexual health