Preamble: maybe not every body has happened to come across this interesting article.
It was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association and it’s even not so recent, but pretty appealing.
There’s no the entire article because I’m interested in some thing related to this argument.
Context Sexual activity has been hypothesized to play a role in the development of prostate cancer, but epidemiological data are virtually limited to case-control studies, which may be prone to bias because recall among individuals with prostate cancer could be distorted as a consequence of prostate malignancy or ongoing therapy.
Objective To examine the association between ejaculation frequency, which includes sexual intercourse, nocturnal emission, and masturbation and risk of prostate cancer.
Design, Setting, and Participants Prospective study using follow-up data from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (February 1, 1992, through January 31, 2000) of 29 342 US men aged 46 to 81 years, who provided information on history of ejaculation frequency on a self-administered questionnaire in 1992 and responded to follow-up questionnaires every 2 years to 2000. Ejaculation frequency was assessed by asking participants to report the average number of ejaculations they had per month during the ages of 20 to 29 years, 40 to 49 years, and during the past year (1991).
Main Outcome, Measure Incidence of total prostate cancer.
Results During 222 426 person-years of follow-up, there were 1449 new cases of total prostate cancer, 953 organ-confined cases, and 147 advanced cases of prostate cancer. Most categories of ejaculation frequency were unrelated to risk of prostate cancer. However, high ejaculation frequency was related to decreased risk of total prostate cancer. The multivariate relative risks for men reporting 21 or more ejaculations per month compared with men reporting 4 to 7 ejaculations per month at ages 20 to 29 years were 0.89 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.73-1.10); ages 40 to 49 years, 0.68 (95% CI, 0.53-0.86); previous year, 0.49 (95% CI, 0.27-0.88); and averaged across a lifetime, 0.67 (95% CI, 0.51-0.89). Similar associations were observed for organ-confined prostate cancer. Ejaculation frequency was not statistically significantly associated with risk of advanced prostate cancer.
Conclusions Our results suggest that ejaculation frequency is not related to increased risk of prostate cancer.
Ok, that’s me again. As you might already know in Italy we’ve got several wonders and their fame goes far and deep.
One of the most important is doubtless the Vatican.
Its moral guidance has reached each corner of our life and intimacy.
Among all the Church's spheres of influence, my favorites are those related to sex and pleasure. I mean those feelings of guilt they inject deep inside everyone with an insidious work, started so long ago.
Nowadays almost nobody would misjudge couples having sex just for pleasure.
But if it got proven that, say, 21 ejaculations per month decrease the risk of prostate cancer, what about those who momentarily do not have a partner to make love with?
The easiest solution would be masturbation of course.
Oooo so funny and interesting that would be ! Finding out that we have to ejaculate 5 times per week to keep our prostate well active!
So as we’ve been going running to decrease the risk of heart attack or we’ve been brushing out teeth to avoid cavities, we’ll have to ejaculate.
A handjob would as healthy as hiking.
Oooo how much I would be curious to see how those funny priests would deal with that.
At the end we will calculate how many people died because of the guilty feeling that has disturbed their sexual activities ;-)
So don't take the risk! May you have sex today and if it wasn’t possible, may you play with yourselves with no guilty feelings!!!