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Give wanks and praise to the Lord...

 
 
Ganesh
10:49 / 17.07.03
... and you will feel alright.

Seems that regular masturbation in one's twenties can reduce the risk of later prostate cancer by 30-40%. Hooray!
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
11:02 / 17.07.03
Fucking get in there!
 
 
Salamander
12:36 / 17.07.03
Then I have noooo worries....
 
 
Unencumbered
12:39 / 17.07.03
I haven't stopped since I heard the news. A tad embarrassing at work or on the bus, but I figure my health's more important.
 
 
Bill Posters
13:17 / 17.07.03
I'm right royally confused by all this. Can anyone clarify whether it's frequent sexual activity, of large no. of sexual partners, or no. of wanks that relate to prostate cancer? I don't quite see how they might have a wildly different effect on carcinogenesis (or lack of) from one another; come to think of it, I'm not sure I can see how they might relate to carcinogenesis at all. Might this be a classic case of 'silly journo gets hold of one study and puts an attention-grabbing headline together'?
 
 
Mr Messy
14:29 / 17.07.03
Slightly more information here Bill. It may explain things a little more clearly.
My understanding is that more sexual partners = more risk of STIs, and that having STIs = more risk of developing cancer. Hence wanking doesn't carry the cancerous risk as does unprotected penetration of any kind.
Cool.
 
 
Mr Messy
14:31 / 17.07.03
This has got me thinking now though. Perhaps someone should try and correlate condom use with prostate cancer and see if theres an effect. That may shed more light on the subject.
 
 
waxy dan
14:48 / 17.07.03
Perhaps someone should try and correlate condom use with prostate cancer and see if theres an effect Quiet Messy. We should concentrate purely on the wanking, the man in the white coat said so.
 
 
Bill Posters
15:31 / 17.07.03
Why was his coat white, I wonder?

Ta Mr Messy, that's made sense of it.
 
 
Ganesh
16:13 / 17.07.03
Number of ejaculations, Bill. I don't think being the object of mass wank-ins counts, though...
 
 
Bill Posters
16:30 / 17.07.03
Pah, I'll just console myself with the thought that it might be good for my skin, kinda like Cleopatra and the asses' milk, only filthier. Maybe it'll protect me from melanoma? But anyway, we've decided that more splurts correlate with less cancer, and more STD's correlate with more cancer. Now all someone has to do is design a study which isolates all the possible confounding variables. By which I mean, poverty, poor nutrition, lack of STD-preventative measures etc are all mixed-up IRL, yet all ought jolly well to be somehow separated, just so we can be certain that boyz who can't afford rubbers and get the clap and then the Big C didn't in fact get their cancer of the prostate due to not eating enough salad and chainsmoking all their lives. Or, whatever. But I'll leave that to you, ahem, hard scientists.
 
 
Ganesh
16:37 / 17.07.03
Ain't that always the case with human research, Bill? I haven't seen the study itself, but would assume that there was at least some attempt at matching the variables you describe. Personally, I'm looking forward to quoting this study on the Christian message-boards; it's definitely one in the, erm, eye for the 'wanking is eeevil' religious right...
 
 
Jub
06:29 / 18.07.03
Fleet street is flowing.
 
 
Mr Messy
08:51 / 18.07.03
Yes, my apologies. I did get rather excited about all of this condom/no condom research. Its just that carrying out the research could be so much fun.
 
 
Bill Posters
12:14 / 18.07.03
Personally, I'm looking forward to quoting this study on the Christian message-boards

Let us spray?
 
 
Warewullf
18:54 / 29.07.03
Seems that regular masturbation in one's twenties can reduce the risk of later prostate cancer by 30-40%

Does it matter who I masturbate?
 
  
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