Drop that Sock! Masturbation May Cause Cancer

Monday, January 26, 2009 - 17:28 in Health & Medicine

The hairy palms don’t sound so bad, and the blindness seems manageable. But cancer! It’s bad news for both Don Juans and subscribers to Swank Magazine, as a new paper in the British Journal of Urology International (BJU) reports a statistically significant correlation between the frequency of sex and masturbation to the early onset of prostate cancer. read more

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