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Frequent sex and masturbation in 20s and 30s linked to higher prostate cancer risk

January 26th, 2009 in Medicine & Health / Cancer

Men who are very sexually active in their twenties and thirties are more likely to develop prostate cancer, especially if they masturbate frequently, according to a study of more than 800 men published in the January issue of BJU International.

However the UK research team also found that frequent sexual activity in a man's forties appears to have little effect and even small levels of activity in a man's fifties 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.

Men who took part in the study were asked about all aspects of their sex life from their twenties onwards, including how old they were when they became sexually active, how often they masturbated and had intercourse, how many sexual partners they had had and whether they had had any sexually transmitted diseases.

"We were keen to look at the links between sexual activity and younger men as a lot of prostate cancer studies focus on older men as the disease is more prevalent in men over 50" says lead author Dr Polyxeni Dimitropoulou, who is now at the University of Cambridge.

"Hormones appear to play a key role in prostate cancer and it is very common to treat men with therapy to reduce the hormones thought to stimulate the cancer cells. A man's sex drive is also regulated by his hormone levels, so this study examined the theory that having a high sex drive affects the risk of prostate cancer."

The study participants, who were recruited by their family doctors, were asked to fill in a questionnaire about their sexual habits in each decade of their life since their twenties.

All the men with prostate cancer had been diagnosed in their fifties. Most of the men who took part in the study (97%) were white and the majority were currently married (84%) or widowed, separated or divorced (12%).

A number of interesting points came out of the study:

• 59% of the men in both groups said that they had engaged in sexual activity (intercourse or masturbation) 12 times a month or more in their twenties. This fell steadily as they got older, to 48% in their thirties, 28% in their forties and 13% in their fifties.

• 39% of the cancer group had had six female partners or more, compared with 31% of the control group.

• Men with prostate cancer were more likely to have had a sexually transmitted disease than those without prostate cancer.

• More men with prostate cancer fell into the highest frequency groups in each decade when it came to sexual activity (intercourse and masturbation) than men in the control group. 40% of men in the cancer group fell into the highest frequency category in their twenties (20 or more times a month) compared to 32% in the control group. Similar patterns were observed in the men's thirties and forties. By the fifties it had evened out, with 31% in each group falling into the most frequent category (ten or more times a month).

• Men with prostate cancer were also more likely to masturbate frequently than men in the control group, with the greatest difference in the twenties (34% versus 24%) and thirties (41% versus 31%). The differences were less pronounced in their forties (34% versus 28%) and by the fifties the cancer group was slightly lower (25% versus 26%).

"What makes our study stand out from previous research is that we focused on a younger age group than normal and included both intercourse and masturbation at various stages in the participants' lives" says Dr Dimitropoulou.

"Overall we found a significant association between prostate cancer and sexual activity in a man's twenties and between masturbation and prostate cancer in the twenties and thirties. However there was no significant association between sexual activity and prostate cancer in a man's forties.

"A possible explanation for the protective effect that men in their fifties appear to receive from overall sexual activity, and particularly masturbation, is that the release of accumulated toxins during sexual activity reduces the risk of developing cancer in the prostate area. This theory has, however, not been firmly established and further research is necessary."

Paper: Sexual activity and prostate cancer risk in men diagnosed at a younger age. Dimitropoulou et al. BJU International. 103, pp 178-185. (January 2009). www.bjui.org

Source: Wiley

Now this is very interesting. I seems to be directly in opposition to the results of studies involving men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate) which seem to suggest that more sex in a man's twenties and thirties reduces the risk of developing prostate problems in old age. Does seem to be a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation. Maybe you are right, we're all doomed!

Oh, Well! None of us are getting out of this world alive anyway, so I would rather do than not.

I think it's saying that men that have much higher levels of testosterone in their 20's-30's masterbate a lot more BECAUSE they have higer levelss of the hormones that spur prostate problems later in life. I don't think it is saying that spankin the monkey causes cancer. One of those "correlation does not indicate causation" kind of things.

12 times a week! oh dear oh dear. I`m 12 times a week minimum and I am in my 40`s ... I guess my hormones must be in a mess. I cannot recall if I was any different in my twenties ... probably a lot worse.:-\

This is so dumb. Last month they said the opposite.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1082966.htm

Medical "science" is still just an art.

Medical "science" is still just an art.

Well, doctors do "practice" medicine.

More propaganda from catholic "scientists".

While we girls are not at risk, I do worry on behalf of my intact male friends, and especially BigGuy. It seems to me that Prostate (NOT "Prostrate", as some folks prounounce it...Geez!) cancer is on the rise or, at least, is more publicized.

Since it's generally accepted that castration is a fairly effective safeguard against PC it might be a good thing if more men opted to be castrated once they were past wanting to father children.

I don't know if this is true, but one of the KiKaKo members claims a male relative had his ballsies removed for the very reason that there was a high incidence of PC in his family and he wanted to reduce the probability of it happening to him.

Makes sense, I guess.

She says he is married, was in his late 40's when it was done, and that his wife readily agreed with it. That, of course, makes me a little suspicious of her motives.

I certainly have no idea if he can, or could for a while after castration, have intercourse but that does raise a question; If a man is castrated is it possible for him to occasionally do the T-Patch thing or similar HRT in order to be able to "do it" but not restore the PC risk factor to any great degree? I know from experience with Barry T. Eunuch, Houston Eunuch #1 (*observation only, thank you very much.) and "my" Asian ladyboy that a eunuch can still have orgasms, or at least some can, but what if the Mrs., the GF, or the gay BF wants to be uck-fayed?

If there is evidence to support the happy medium then I might start an insidious campaign in favor of what has heretofore been unthinkable...Talking BigGuy into losing them before anything bad happens. Yep, pretty unthinkable.

Still, WOBG, Ash(leigh), and I would make sure they had a wonderful going-away party and we'd make darned sure he still had frequent orgasms.

Book it!

Yoli

The Ever-curious.

*Well, I HAVE played with it and his baggie a couple of times, but that was it. Really! Okay, I did finish him off one time but I immediately washed my hands after. What really helps him "over the hump" is if I kinda blow in his ear and whisper encouragement.

Yoli,

Someday I am going to buy a HUGE canvas laundry bag, put two heavy bowling balls in it and ship it to you so that you can get all of that ball and bag stuff out of your system...

...or, alternatively, you can use it to bludgeon the old lady who is trying to hook you up with her son...just leave the balls in it until after you do the job... O.K.?

STATISTICS

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

- Autobiography of Mark Twain

Re: British Journal of Urology International...

I am not sure if they are seriously mistaken about this or just trying to scare the FUCK out of the young hired houseboys who are BOINKING their wives and daughters...

When you are 20 to 30 years of age, even if you know what a prostate is and where it is located and what it does, you sure as heck don't give a darn about it or about being old and having protate problems. The name of the game for that age is boink. (any way you can).

A whole host of problems could be eliminated (maybe even war) if upon reaching puberty our sperm was taken and frozen and we were promptly surgically castrated.

Should the desire ever arise to father a child, the sperm could be retrieved and artifically inseminated. Selling sperm and eggs just doesn't seem right to me, but even today eggs are being sold, maybe sperm is being sold now too. I guess I am a tad bit old fashioned in thinking that sperm and eggs should come from the parents who raise their child or children. I try to be flexible and open minded but I can't seem to let myself accept selling/buying of perm and eggs.

(how the heck did I let me thoughts transition to that........sorry ).

Unwanted pregnancies from accidents and rape would be eliminated. Rape itself might be eliminated except that controlling access and use of TRT would be harder than elimination of illegal drugs.

It won't ever happen, or won't it? I never thought this country would willifully and frequently violate the Geneva convention in a time of war, but we did. Changing times make people change....sometimes not for the better.