All the old talk centered around masturbation making you blind and such. Seems to me that masturbation would probably be good for you. No, I’m not talking about arm excercises or heavy breathing. I am talking about keeping the prostate juices, and sperm flowing. I also think your body would be happy when all of those sex hormones are flying around because it thinks you are getting all this action. There wouldn’t be any sense in taking an active contributor out of the gene pool.
A widely reported study from Australia this summer (here’s a cite from BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm) says “Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest.”
It also says: “A similar connection has been found between breast cancer and breastfeeding”.
The basic explanation I’ve heard is that jerking it allows you to release semen/spooge which would otherwise just hang out in your testicles, potentially allowing carcinogens in the spooge to cause testicular cancer.
Jerk away!
(Although I’ve always had this unwarranted fear that jerking it would make my body think, on a purely biological level, that I was getting “too much” action [for the gene pool] and make it kill me off).
I think there probably is such a thing as excessive masturbation, but only to the extent that you can only come so many times in a day, so that if you masturbate and then get laid you might not do as well as if you’d just come out of a dry spell. That’s just what I’ve found in my own experience.
Of course, frequent dog-flogging might also train the body to create more ball-batter. To extend the comparison to breast feeding even further, it’s certainly true that the breasts create more milk the more it’s used. It seems to me that an increased rate of bunk-spunking might have the same effect.
I had heard though that excessive sex can cause impotence. Specifically I heard that the last emperor of China, through having extreme quantities of sex while still young essentially wore out the goods and was impotent as an adult.
Regularly ejaculating is supposed to be good for prostate health. It probably doesn’t make a difference if it is because of sex with someone else or achieved alone, at least as far as the prostate is concerned.
I always thought that “Deadly Sperm Buildup” was more a joke/myth. Maybe someday we’ll be admonishing our children “Junior, don’t forget to masturbate”. “Mom!”
For the Emperor of China, there’s a chance his impotence was caused by certain viral or bacterial damage.
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