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Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

#4
The quote at the end confuses me:

> In 1807 William Wordsworth wrote, "The child is father of the man." With respect to prostate cancer, though, sexual activity in adolescence may be a predictor of risk in adulthood.

Wouldn't adolescent sexual activity be the form-determining-factor (aka "father") of the prostate cancer risk statistical profile in adulthood?

How is this different from the last sentence being analogous to the quote?

Thanks in advance for humoring me.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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post #5

> Compared to men who reported 4–7 ejaculations per month across their lifetimes, men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer.

Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump up those numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CES1OIkFhg4

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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post #5

> Compared to men who reported 4–7 ejaculations per month across their lifetimes, men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer.

Of course, this is correlational. There could be a 3rd variable, like "overall being healthy" which causes both.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

#10

Dont show this to the nofap community

Most of that community appears to be based on woo and bad analysis of science/biology, so I imagine they'd likely dismiss this study out of hand regardless.

But also, we shouldn't forget this:

> The studies from the United States and Australia do little to answer these critical questions — but they do open a new avenue for research

This isn't a fully understood area of research yet.

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