To All Men: Stop Having Sex and Masturbation To Save Yourself From Prostate Cancer
Written by WTJ on January 27, 2009 – 12:01 am -
Hormone plays an important role in stimulating cancer cells proliferation, hence causing prostate cancer. Man’s sex drive is also stimulated by hormone. Scientists at University of Nottingham studied the relationship between men sex drive and prostate cancer, and they really found a link between the two. According to the study involved 800 men, men who had frequent sex and masturbation are more likely to have higher risk of getting prostate cancer. However the risks diminish with age. The study was published in January issue of BJU International.
So would you like to enjoy life earlier and longer but suffering health problem, or shorter happy days but healthier life?
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:10 am
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January 27th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I don’t believe that and I choose not to believe that. lol
July 14th, 2009 at 1:43 am
I found the same information here http://www.squidoo.com/stamp-test pretty amazing stuff, cannot image how they would have “fixed” it back in the 1970s
July 18th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I cannot accept this. Infact doctors advice that daily sex or masturbation decreeases the risk of heart attacks and depression to some extent..
August 9th, 2009 at 1:00 am
First of all, research conclusions depend on the data one has, for this reason studies using different data may end up producing different results and conclusions. Every day 100 studies come out on the same subject and half of them disagree with the other half.
Secondly, if you read the paper or a full-length summary, it is evident that nobody said “stop sexual activity”. They said “too much” might be bad for you, which means that it would be useful to reduce/moderate it, not stop it altogether. They use “might” because there is always probability attached to such studies. There is a big difference between “too much” and “not at all” and varying degrees in between, one doesn’t need to go from one extreme to the other. Science studies need to be read carefully and not from the newspaper, you better read the actual paper. There is a full discussion in there and there are the actual frequencies, in the results, at which protective/harmful effects were detected. Too much too early was found to be harmful, but some in older age was found to be protective, most news reports have left that out because it is more shocking to report “stop sexual activity”. Don’t you know that news reporters exaggerate to sell their stories? Again, the title in here is completely false and misleading, the study did not conclude anything like that, nobody said “stop all sexual activity”, this is ridiculous. Read the actual press release and the paper, not the news feeds of how each moronic reporter interpretes scientific findings.
It doesn’t have to do with what you accept, it is about probability, specific data and results, and even then individual risk varies. And daily sex may decrease the risk of some conditions but increase the risk of others, nothing is a panacea. It would be useful to direct any complaints to journalists, because science is not to be reported in part, it is not simple and it is not open to interpretation by those who are irrelevant with a subject. Sexual activity may or may not be a marker for prostate cancer risk eventually, but the study reached its specific results with the specific data it had. A bit more knowledge on epidemiological designs, pros and cons, is necessary to be able to assess research.