A-1 (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:37 am Masturbation facilitates a bodily function. That function is reproduction. If we cannot reproduce, we still have the physiological function that facilitates reproduction.

Male humans who have functioning testicles need to ejaculate at least twice a week to remove fluids that have accumulated in the prostate. Men who ejaculate frequently have lower rates of prostate cancer than men who rarely ejaculate.

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:59 am Male humans who have functioning testicles need to ejaculate at least twice a week to remove fluids that have accumulated in the prostate. Men who ejaculate frequently have lower rates of prostate cancer than men who rarely ejaculate.

Can your last line be referenced?

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2012 12:49 pm Can your last line be referenced?

I read an article titled: Reuters - Masturbating Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk

The url was:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=3102498

Unfortunately, that url was from July 2003 and it no longer works.

TRy this link and please copy the pertinent paragraphs over to the comment trail.

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

I found this with a Google groups search:

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2012 1:59 pm Masturbating Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk

- Study Wed July 16, 2003 01:59 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research.

Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.

They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a protective effect against the cancer because it prevents dangerous carcinogens from building up in the gland.

"The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them," Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.

In a survey of 1,079 prostate cancer patients and 1,259 healthy men, Giles and his team discovered that men who ejaculated more than five times a week in their 20s were a third less likely to develop an aggressive form of the disease.

The findings contradict previous studies which suggested that having a variety of partners or frequent sexual activity could increase the risk of prostate cancer by 40 percent.

But Giles said the earlier research concentrated on intercourse, whereas his study focused on masturbation. Infections caused by sexual activity could account for the different findings.

"Men have many ways of using their prostate which don't involve women

My own experience is anecdotal evidence of the benefits of regular ejaculation. During the period that my prolactinoma was undetected/misdiagnosed I lost my ability to have an erection. My wife took it personally and did not want any sexual contact at all. Nevertheless, I still was able to masturbate to orgasm without an erection and did so at least three times a week. This was over a period of 12 years. Now that I can get erections again I still masturbate at least three times a week when I do not have a sexual partner. At my most recent physical my doctor said that he has never examined a more normal prostate in a man my age (69).