What? Frequent sex and masturbation in 20s and 30s ups risk of prostate cancer?

26/01/09

Although this may sound like something out of the "don’t do it because you’ll go blind" book of sexual repression, it’s not a joke. According to a report published in the January issue of BJU International, men who are very sexually active in their 20s and 30s, especially if they masturbate frequently, have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer.
BUT – men in their 50s who have even infrequent sexual activity actually decrease their risk of developing prostate cancer.
According to the study, which looked at 800 men:
frequent sex in 20s and 30s: not good
frequent sex in 40s: no health impact re prostate
sex in 50s: good
The important point also was not intercourse, but the frequency of masturbation.
I would be very interested in reading the study in w…

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