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Self pleasure is good for you

20 December 2003

IT WILL make you go blind, they said. It will make your palms grow hairy, they said. But finally the truth is out. It seems masturbation is good for you. For young men, frequent self-pleasuring could protect them against the most common kind of cancer.

In July, doctors in Australia revealed that the more men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer. The researchers speculate that ejaculation prevents carcinogens building up in the fluid produced by the prostate gland. Who said most news is bad news?

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