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Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by jefftk »

cycomanic wrote: post #56
b212 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d assume being in a long term relationship actually lowers your frequency ;)

You're wrong. This was some time ago but I recall seeing a study that a 60 year old married woman has more sex on average than a single man in his 20s.

But the study was about ejaculation, not intercourse. Single men in their 20s might have little of the latter, but lots of the former.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by b4je7d7wb »

twawaaay wrote: post #36
robocat wrote: post #25

So many opportunities for correlation not causation. One obvious correlation could be testosterone: higher testosterone leading to less prostate cancer. Of course higher testosterone has multiple causes. I knew a girlfriend of a guy taking roids, both in their twenties: she said he was insatiable in her opinion (I think she limited access to three times a day, because he just wanted more).

It is truly tiring to see all these "linked" articles. It might be interesting but without some more research it is useless and just messes up with 99.9% of population who will read it and wrongly assume sexual activity prevents cancer. I am currently on a big spree trying to fix my diet and sift true information from all those wrong inferences. Turns out, almost everything I have been told and red is a lie based on…

Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool?

I think nutrition is one of the earliest things you figure out that it depends and nobody really knows what their talking about. My mother and wife have a lot of opinions about nutrition that are obviously unscientific, situational and anecdotal.

> Lifetime of avoiding fat... exactly opposite of what I should have been doing...

There is more nuance involved. What kind of fat? What kind of diet? Calorie surplus? What about salt? What kind of metabolism do you have?

It is just impossible to make blanket statements like eat fat, do not eat fat, eat sugar, do not eat sugar. It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by hattmall »

cycomanic wrote: post #56
b212 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d assume being in a long term relationship actually lowers your frequency ;)

You're wrong. This was some time ago but I recall seeing a study that a 60 year old married woman has more sex on average than a single man in his 20s.

But definitely not a single woman, that wants to have more.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by [deleted] »

version_five wrote: post #39

I want to point out that it's long been HN filter policy to "kill" posts that use a word beginning with m for self stimulation they is very relevant to this discussion. If you turn on showdead you'll see a few dead posts by people that aren't otherwise shadowbanned, because they used that word. Seems like a good argument against censorship, especially as it relates to normal activity.

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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by lucb1e »

loeg wrote: post #8
altdataseller wrote: post #3

Dont show this to the nofap community

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I only ever heard cult used in the sense of an organised group that is lead to believe harmful and untrue things, but checking the dictionary, it can also just be "great devotion to [e.g., an] idea" (merriam webster) which could be said of nearly any subreddit. In what way do you mean it? Besides the correlation in this study, is there anything particularly harmful in the same way that a more stereotypical cult (KKK is the first that comes to mind, probably a relatively extreme example but I don't know that many) is typically considered harmful?

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by Maursault »

robocat wrote: post #25

So many opportunities for correlation not causation. One obvious correlation could be testosterone: higher testosterone leading to less prostate cancer. Of course higher testosterone has multiple causes. I knew a girlfriend of a guy taking roids, both in their twenties: she said he was insatiable in her opinion (I think she limited access to three times a day, because he just wanted more).

> One obvious correlation could be testosterone: higher testosterone leading to less prostate cancer.

I would assume that over certain high frequencies, testosterone would plummet, not increase.

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