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Study: An ejaculation a day may keep prostate cancer at bay
      By Reuters, 7/16/2003

SYDNEY -- Frequent masturbation may be really good for you.

Research by Australia's Cancer Council Victoria found that the more often
men ejaculate
between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to suffer the
disease that kills
more than half a million men each year.

The survey of 1,079 prostate cancer patients and 1,259 healthy men found that those
who masturbated or had sex at least once a day in their 20s were a third
less likely to
develop the malady.

"For men in their 50s of course that's often not achievable,"
Graham Giles, who led the
research team, told Reuters on Thursday.

"(But) masturbation isn't bad for you. I don't believe in the
blindness and hairy palms
theory. Prohibitions against ejaculations are not based on science," he said.

The study, conducted between 1994 and 1998 but still being analysed, did not focus
specifically on masturbation.

Nevertheless, it was the largest so far to ask participants not just about
their sexual
relations but also about masturbation, and to analyse the answers.

Giles said the findings correlate with previous research that showed Roman Catholic
priests were 30 percent more likely to get prostate cancer, but they contradict other
studies that suggested having a variety of partners or frequent sex could
lift the risk.

One theory that could explain the new results is that semen may have a carcinogenic
effect on the cells lining the prostatic ducts if not flushed regularly out
of the pipes by
ejaculations.

The research is due to be published in this weekend's British Journal of Urology
International.
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