Remember to masturbate often

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:21 pm

It's too late here and I'm tired and thus unable to judge what to write but somebody pasted this on IRC and I thought to share it with you my friends

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_pag ... 02,00.html

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Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 4:17 pm

I hope you do not believe these stupid speculations!

mr swim · Post by **mr swim** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 5:46 pm

I suppose actual sex would be a good second best !

Thalamus · Post by **Thalamus** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 7:26 pm

Hehe, Well guys, have a little time with your best friend (still the chance to get blind, though).

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 8:30 pm

That's quite different, isn't it?

Post by **hubird** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 11:01 pm

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 6:46 am

Hubird!

Post by **hubird** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 10:31 am

just making a milkshake...

dehuszar · Post by **dehuszar** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 10:59 am

I'll feel safer when I sleep tonight! Come to think of it, I've always been a little paranoid about cancer. I better get to work, staying healthy is a full time job.

Sam

p.s. whoever wrote that article really knew how to cater to their audience.

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:07 am

Unfortunately, they forgot to mention the adverse side effects:

You'll grow hair on your hands and eventually you'll go blind.

Well... that's what my mom told me

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:55 am

No kidding, sexual energy it's extremely important to the organism, and if you spend it like a fool, you'll die like a fool.

I'm completely sure this false, cos I have studied those matters by myself, and can't be fooled easily.

What I find terrible, is the fact that just because a scientist says something, everybody assumes it is true... They once also said the earth was a plain surface, but it was round...

To my understanding, masturbation the only thing can bring about, is psychological and physical problems...

I respect all positions and ideas and this is mine.

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:57 pm

...right, i'm off for a wank.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 6:26 pm

Nestor, you probably misunderstood the guy

He's a scientist and just puts a theory to discussion which is somewhat contrary to the usual viewpoint on the subject and comes with a new explanation.
Prostate cancer is known as highly hormon sensitive, specially to testosteron level, and as such also dependend of your sexual activity. Nevertheless it couldn't be veryfied scientifically if more or less sex has a direct influence on developing the disease or not. Afaik the 'trigger' mechanism is still unknown.
While the attention was so much on the hormon side (one of the usual treatments of prostate cancer is the complete removement of testosteron from the organism, giving you 5-7 extra years), he simply points in another direction and suspects semen fluid to be biochemically aggressive in an unknown way.
His numbers (studies of that size are rather rare) seem to speak for this.
So it is not a statement pro masturbation and contra partner sex, but just the description of an observation

Well, while we're at it: that kind of cancer is a very common one, it's rather harmless if located inside the prostate and in fact it can be there for decades without 'activity'.
But once it grows beyond the prostate and gets into blood circulation it's usually uncurable. Whatever you do, you don't get rid of the cells. The before mentioned hormon therapy can stop the growing of tumor cells for several years in more than 50% of the cases, until those develope a resistance.
There is absolutely NO chance to notice yourself that you're affected by this disease ! Precaution is the only way to go.
Since I don't have current numbers check it yourself via Google if you're interested.
I dedicate this to Frank Zappa, who lost this fight

cheers, Tom

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:38 am

Nestor wrote:

To my understanding, masturbation the only thing can bring about, is psychological and physical problems...

brings what???