Sex after 50 - heart & prostate health?

[Guest ncm2169]

I could swear I've read something here or elsewhere about the beneficial effects of men over 50 having frequent sex and their "much happier" heart and prostate. Can anyone help me find some "reasoned" research? }(

[Guest PWIT]

check this article in Men's Health:

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=prostate&conitem=6f6145a8001c6010VgnVCM100000cfe793cd____

 

below is the specific paragraph from the article, but it doesn't give an exact reference for the study mentioned:

 

Another way to reduce the risk is to engage the prostate's self-cleaning cycle. Researchers in Australia recently queried more than 1,000 men with prostate cancer about their ejaculation rates and compared the results with data obtained from a comparable group of healthy men. These researchers discovered that men who ejaculated frequently between the ages of 20 and 50 were at markedly lower risk of developing prostate cancer. Even more provocatively, men in their 20s who ejaculated at least five times a week were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer during their mature years. All those high-school P.E.-class jokes assume new meaning when I ponder the clear health benefits of chronic masturbation.

[+ Charlie]

That's wonderful news for me: in my 20s I ejaculated at least three times a DAY.

[jackhammer91406]

FINALLY, a subject I can get my hands on. Wait.... just reread the OP.

Never mind. :+

[Boston Guy]

LOL... thanks! I think you just made my day... I better go do so cleaning. :-)

 

BG

[Lookin]

Every day, those busy hands

Can soothe our hearts and clean our glands.

 

Our quest for health should never end.

It's even better with a friend.

[+ deej]

ROFL!

 

The hidden talents that appear from time to time never cease to amaze me around here. :7

[+ Hoover42]

>Another way to reduce the risk is to engage the prostate's self-cleaning cycle

 

How do you do that?

 

...Hoover

[Guest]

The best kind of research in this subject, called "randomized clinical trials" (i.e. randomly assign half of the men to ejaculate more, and tell half to ejaculate less), unfortunately would be difficult if not impossible to do. Nevertheless, so far non-randomized data suggest that avoiding ejaculation not only increases a man's risk of prostate cancer, but also of BPH, in which the prostate just becomes enlarged and congested (leading to difficulty emptying one's bladder).

The best kind of exercise for one's heart is aerobic (i.e. swimming, bicycling, jogging, hiking, or even walking). I'm not familiar with any data to suggest that sex either helps or hurts, cardiovascular-wise. Since sex involves surges of catecholamines (i.e. adrenalin, etc.), one needs to be cautious in engaging in sexual activities if one has an unstable cardiac status (such as after a heart attack and before cardiac rehabilitation).

[Guest]

By either having sex or jacking off. Hire an escort--make your prostate happy.

[+ glutes]

Well busy hands are happy hands...:-)

From the prostate angle: it is a bladder and needs to be regularly voided. Why let it back up??

Did you know that prostate massage is good for its health?

http://www.highisland.com/

[+ Hoover42]

OK, I see. The phrase, "Self-Cleaning Cycle" had me confused. It sounded like it was a special mode of the prostate that had to be enabled somehow.

 

 

...Hoover

[+ Oliver]

RE: Sex after 50 - heart & prostate health?

 

NOW they tell me!!! ;( And here I was trying to avoid hairy palms! x(

 

(I'm making up for it now, although the horse has left the barn. }( )

[+ deej]

RE: Sex after 50 - heart & prostate health?

 

>NOW they tell me!!! ;( And here I was trying to

>avoid hairy palms! x(

>

>(I'm making up for it now, although the horse has left the

>barn. }( )

 

Your palms are hairy? How inconvenient! :9

[+ Oliver]

RE: Sex after 50 - heart & prostate health?

 

>Your palms are hairy? How inconvenient! :9

 

Nooooooo ... that's not what I meant! :+ ......Oh, never mind. (Rosanne Rosannadanna)