# Masturbation (and Sex) CAUSES Prostate Cancer!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128 "2009-01-26T21:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/41 "2009-01-28T00:58:00Z")
On a side note, where are we, medically speaking, on the consumption of eggs nowadays? Good? Bad? Ugly? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/42 "2009-01-28T01:34:06Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > On a side note, where are we, medically speaking, on the consumption of eggs nowadays? Good? Bad? Ugly? I’m guessing that depends on how excited you get eating eggs… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/43 "2009-01-28T03:34:56Z")
> [@Sunrazor](#): > > Okay, I swore years ago that when the medical community officially decreed that sex is bad for you, I would completely ignore everything after that. > > This is it. Credibility gone. No more cancer scares for me. From now on I’m eating, drinking and smoking what I want when I want. I knew all along the bastards were lying, and this proves it. Sex, bad for you? And not even from STDs or hooking, just plain old humpalot screwin? Sorry, no sale here, bub. The ol’ in-and-out is good for a person, I don’t care what my wife says. Why am I reminded of that scene in _Sleeper_ where Woody Allen is told to start smoking? ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/44 "2009-01-28T14:09:34Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Since I’m way past my 20s and 30s, there’s no point in stopping now, right? It depends on how bad your eyesight has gotten. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/45 "2009-01-28T16:41:59Z")
I just wish that after all of these years I’d tried sex with another person. (But I’m just SO jealous!) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/46 "2009-01-28T17:29:43Z")
> [@Sunrazor](#): > > Okay, I swore years ago that when the medical community officially decreed that sex is bad for you, They did? I must have missed that. Do you have a link? ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/47 "2009-01-28T20:04:07Z")
The _Daily Mash_ has its own slant on the story :- [http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/wanking-kills-200901271535/](http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/wanking-kills-200901271535/) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/48 "2009-01-31T20:47:32Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > They did? I must have missed that. Do you have a link? [Here’s one saying oral sex can give it to you.](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11819?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn11819) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/49 "2009-01-31T22:19:15Z")
I think the main cause of prostate cancer is having a prostate. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/50 "2009-02-01T00:29:10Z")
Dammit, I think living is the cause of most health ailments. If I were dead I wouldn’t have to worry about these problems. PS: If I die of prostate cancer, I will have lived! ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/51 "2009-02-01T20:00:42Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > According to a few doctors I’ve seen for different reasons, including prostrate problems, all any man has to do in order to develop prostrate cancer is to live long enough. No, it’s even worse than that. All you have to do is lie down. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/52 "2009-02-01T20:30:22Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. 12 times in a month?! :eek: What guy in his 20s is having sex or masturbating _less than_ 12 times a month? Seriously! Name just one. I dare ya! I double-dog dare ya! Oh man, we’re all screwed! ☹ 12 times in a month! Twice I’ve gone 8 times in one day. (Just thought I’d share that since this is the MPSIMS forum.) ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/53 "2009-02-01T22:22:38Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > 12 times in a month! Twice I’ve gone 8 times in one day. (Just thought I’d share that since this is the MPSIMS forum.) Once I took viagra and fucked a guy in the ass three times in the course of one night for over an hour each time. Since we’re sharing. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/54 "2009-02-01T22:56:22Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Once I took viagra and fucked a guy in the ass three times in the course of one night for over an hour each time. > > Since we’re sharing. Thanks for the tip. I’ll keep my back to the cyber-wall any time we’re in the same thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128/55 "2009-02-02T08:52:30Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > Thanks for the tip. I’ll keep my back to the cyber-wall any time we’re in the same thread. 😃 He was a perfectly willing (and indeed happy) participant, I’ll have you know. Oh god now I feel like I’m back in school… ☹ 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masturbation-and-sex-causes-prostate-cancer/483128.md?page=2)