Masturbation Aids Prostate Therapy

What is the connection between an enlarged prostate gland and masturbation? Read on ....

Masturbation has been a taboo subject and associated with a large number of falsehoods. Perhaps it was believed that human beings are not entitled to have sexual pleasure unless it is shared !

With a change in perceptions and the acceptance of the biological need for sex, such myths have been discredited. Now, masturbation as a tool for self stimulation and prostate health has become a subject matter of studies conducted all over the world. While there is an inherent risk of infections and sexually transmitted diseases during sexual intercourse, masturbation is the manual, self-stimulation of the genital organs and there is absolutely no risk.

The Cancer Council Victoria in Australia has just announced the results of a study into the relationship between prostate cancer and ejaculation in men. Masturbation is no longer a taboo subject and the study published in the British Journal of Urology International suggests that frequent ejaculation by whatever means will keep the gland healthy. The more the ducts from the gland are cleared of debris and toxins, including any carcinogens in the prostatic fluid, the better it is.

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A recent US study - the biggest one to date- suggests that frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation protects men against a common form of cancer. The study, which followed nearly 30,000 men over eight years, showed that those that ejaculated most frequently were significantly less likely to get prostate cancer.

In the US study, the group with the highest lifetime average of ejaculation - 21 times per month - were a third less likely to develop the cancer than the reference group, who ejaculated four to seven times a month. And just think ...Michael Leitzmann, at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues set out to test a long-held theory that suggested the opposite - that a higher ejaculation rate raises the risk of prostate cancer. At the start of the study, the men filled in a history of their ejaculation frequency and then filled in further questionnaires every two years.

Men of different ages varied in how often they ejaculated, so the team used a lifetime average for comparisons. However, whilst the findings are statistically significant, Leitzmann remains cautious.A further reservation is that the benefit of ejaculation was less clear in relation to the most dangerous, metastasising form of prostate cancer, compared to the organ-confined or slow-growing types.