Time to go beat cancer? Sorry, the jokes are too easy.
Pornhub has done more for public healthcare than the average politician.
Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#122Dont show this to the nofap community
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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#123Dont show this to the nofap community
When I'm in the mood of reading a bunch of smug nerds pontificating and preaching, I click on any popsci or diet-related article on HN. Never fails to entertain. Nofap like many things has been turned into a brand, and even politicised to the point some idiots attack it saying it's far right ideology. On the other hand there are teenagers with serious porn-related issues that think nofap will turn them into superhuma…
I understand that you may have a different perspective, but being passive-aggressive in your comments doesn't help communicate your thoughts effectively. It's better to be direct and clear in your statements so that everyone can understand your perspective.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#124Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
>So many opportunities for correlation not causation. When people point this out (which they do on every single human-related study that makes the front page), it implies that the article is suggesting causation somewhere. I don't see this article suggesting that anywhere; what I find toward the end is this: >The studies from the United States and Australia do little to answer these critical questions — but they do o…
> Even so, the apparent protection extended to all age groups. In all, men who averaged 4.6–7 ejaculations a week were 36% less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 70 than men who ejaculated less than 2.3 times a week on average. Sure, they use "apparent" as a weasel-word but "protection" is clearly suggesting causation.
Unless you've discovered some secret research that you're not sharing, a 31% decrease in incidence is certainly enough of an excuse to speculate about a possible protective effect.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#126Time to go beat cancer? Sorry, the jokes are too easy.
I doubt the evidence will stand up…
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. W…
> It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do. Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own? How is nutrition different from math or grammar?
"How is nutrition different from math or grammar?"
Well, because 1 + 1 = 2, all the time, and the optimal diet is different for everyone?
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#128Also for a bit of correlation circlejerk: On average, men who walk 5km a day are less likely to die in a road accident.
Is that actually true, or is it only true of drivers? I'm pretty sure that of people who don't drive, the ones who walk fewer than 5km a day are going to be involved in fewer road accidents than the ones who walk more.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#129So YouPorn is a medical device now. Seriously: those are not the sole studies showing those evidences. There are older with the same results. Religion and movements that prevent masturbation are disturbing from the point of view of the sexual development of teenagers.
Wouldn’t be the first time a self-pleasuring tool was widely regarded as a wondrous medical device … there was one that treated a catch—all disease called “hysteria” in the other half of the human population: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-vibrator/ Let’s not forget the kids before puberty. Today’s “hysteria” is alive and well — it’s called ADHD and it involves overdiagnosing rambunctiousness and pres…
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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#130Also seems possible that married men, who are at a lower risk for almost every negative health outcome there is, are also at a lower risk for prostate cancer due to what is outlined in the paper. Married men seem more likely to have frequent (ahem) both due to literally living with their partner, as well as having a lower likelihood of depression, higher testosterone (the higher test generally would lead to the marri…
I would actually expect most married men to have less frequent ejaculations. I'm not married myself, but my impression is that most couples don't keep up a daily sexual routine for several decades, and finding time and space to self-stimulate is awkward if your live-in partner is not in the mood. One thing I actually prefer (ironically) about the single life is that the schedule of your sexual release, which has a bi…
> finding time and space to self-stimulate is awkward
I still believe that the main reason for the iPad's success (ahead of letting it babysit your kids) was married men taking it into the bathroom to masturbate.