Flutterby™! : Masturbation prevents prostate cancer

Good news! A team led by Professor Graham Giles, head of cancer epidemiology at the Cancer Council Victoria, has found that masturbation may protect against prostate cancer. From the press release:

The researched showed that the protective effect of ejaculation is greatest when men in their twenties ejaculated on average seven or more times a week. This group were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer when compared with men who ejaculated less than three times a week at this age.

Other rehashes from The Independent, The Australian, Yahoo.

This study looked at ejaculation, which gave different results from previous studies which looked at sexual activity. This was one of the things that bothered me about the "it's bad to ejaculate" thing from the neo-tantra folks (not just delayed ejaculation, which is actually high on my list of "good things"). Clearly this should be up there with brushing your teeth on the "things to do to keep your body healthy" that we tell kids to do.