Drop that Sock! Masturbation May Cause Cancer

So what happens to your load when you don't get off? Does it Rot inside you? Your mind and body clearly says its great for you. Gotta keep on the update. Cancer can simply develop from unhealthy, or too healthy; or abnormal living conditions by putting synthetic compounds into the human body and expecting the best.

If the jury is indeed out, as the article so helpfully points out, then why couldn't PopSci have waited until it was in? Now all we have is an article that tells us that ejaculation could be both very bad and very good for us, and not much more. I think waiting until a better scientific consensus could have be reached would have been less confusing to the public. I'm sure the writer and the editors enjoyed chuckling over all the jokes about an intensely private matter. I think sometimes the magazine focuses the "pop" part of its title a bit much. Just stick to cold fusion, personal hovercars and hypersonic airliners.

Hey, "PopSci" was never more appropriate.

That picture, though... Unless "Swank" magazine has perfected holographic porn, this article is a definite candidate for the worst case of visual hyperbole...

I'm actually more curious how and why a copyrighted US military photo, first hosted on www.us.army.mil in late august 2008, is being used in this way.

Taken in the early hours at YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER, WASHINGTON STATE, 2-146 FIELD ARTILLERY TRAINING

You take notice, when its something fantastic you have a connection with...

I'm actually more curious how and why a copyrighted US military photo, first hosted on www.us.army.mil in late august 2008, is being used in this way.

Taken in the early hours at YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER, WASHINGTON STATE, 2-146 FIELD ARTILLERY TRAINING

You take notice, when its something fantastic you have a connection with...

dumbest article i've read so far on this site. congrats, you've outdone yourselves with this really stupid article. now let me go have a nice wank

That picture is hilarious!

I am more interested in the correlation between the sexually transmitted disease and prostate cancer. We know that a cervical cancer is primarily caused by a sexually transmitted disease, could they same hold true for prostate cancer?

2 large scale studies of the general population show that those people who frequently ejaculate are approximately 33% less likely to get prostate cancer. Two small scale studies focused on a non-general population cancer-having group and a control group show that the cancer group had more sexual activity. The answer is clear to me. They did not control for risk aversion in the small scale studies. It's likely the group having cancer engaged in high risk activities more often such as unprotected sex, smoking, unhealthy diets, etc. that lead to them being more likely to contract cancer. If you are a person that likes to take risks and does not think about consequences, you are both more likely to contract some form of cancer and to be more promiscous. They need to control for high risk behavior, check for STD rates, and answer the Chicken & Egg question. Perhaps it's not that the frequent sexual behavior lead to cancer, but that a preexisting condition that makes them more likely to contract cancer caused increased libido or decreased inhibition/risk aversion. Correlative is not necessarily causal.

Clearly, I think that this topic could have been put on hold until a clear answer could have been decided on.

This is a clear case of: Ha! Caught you looking!

To masturbating, or not to masturbating: that is the question

:)