on: masturbation

pulled this off of the news......



"LONDON - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent

prostate cancer later in life, according to new research.  Australian

scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20

and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than

half a million men each year.



They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a protective effect against the

cancer because it prevents dangerous carcinogens from building up in the

gland. "The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around

and damage the cells that line them," Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council

Victoria in Melbourne, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.



In a survey of 1,079 prostate cancer patients and 1,259 healthy men, Giles

and his team discovered that men who ejaculated more than five times a week

in their 20s were a third less likely to develop an aggressive form of the

disease. "



see! jocelyn elders was right! Spank that monkey!





on another note, my friend Mimi is reading a book about the mating and

reproductive habits of other species, and she forwarded me some of the more

interesting ones, which i, in turn, will now pass on to you to read, as I

complete this very long run-on sentence, thank you very much:



"There is a species of worm where the male is 200,000x smaller than the

female and he insemenates her by being inhaled through her nose.



There is a kind of squid where the male dislodges his penis and projects the

whole thing into the side of the female and it becomes a part or her body.



In Japanese Macaques (monkeys) the males and females will fight to have sex

with a particularly sultry female, and the females masturbate themselves

with their tails.



Oragutans make sex toys out of leaves and branches.



Sand sharks have intrauterine cannibalism where one fetus will eat his

brothers and sisters in utero.



Spiders have one penis on each side of his mouth



Marine iguanas masturbate themselves whenever a female passes by so that

they are closer to ejaculation if they happen to get a chance to mate. 

Apparently they will notoriously knock each other off while mating so the

quicker a male deposits his genetic material the more likely he is to

fertilize the eggs and so they've evolved to masturbate.



One fly, called a midge, liquifies her mate's innards and sucks him dry

while they mate - sex and a meal in one."



so the next time that you find yourself despairing about sex and romance

among us humans (and yes, it is grammatically correct to say 'us humans' in

this sentence) just be glad that you're not a liquified male midge fly.



-c



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