I can tell you that Mistress, when exposed to this argument scoffed. I think she likes to spoil her slave, or at least has come to believe that I behave better when encouraged to "release" all those sexual fluids on a regular basis.
But at the back of my mind was my recollection of studies that said men have a better chance of avoiding prostrate cancer. Of course my own thoughts on who does or does not get prostrate cancer is purely anecdotal. I am at an age when I've known several guys who dealt with this disease, including my own father, then in his mid-70's. The other, younger guys I know all fall into a certain category: nice guys who didn't seem likely to be getting much "action" at home, and unlikely to look for it elsewhere. (Of course, I could be completely wrong about that, I'm just making a probably unfair judgment about them based on their personalities and who their spouses).
Fortunately, one of our commenters did the research for me and came up with an article with the name Harvard attached to it. From there I found another article with the name Johns Hopkins attached to it. The gist of both is that initially folks hypothesized that more frequent sex might actually encourage prostrate cancer by exposing a guy to STDs and inflammation. But then someone actually did a study of sexually active guys in middle age and this is the summary:
Previous
studies have been inconclusive, notes Platz, but "taken together, they
hint that men who have more sex, or who have had a sexually transmitted
disease, are more likely to have prostate cancer."
Platz and her
colleagues at Harvard and the National Cancer Institute were unconvinced. As
part of a massive study, led by epidemiologist Michael Leitzmann at Harvard,
they recently studied nearly 30,000 men participating in the Health
Professionals Follow-up Study. Most of these men were white and middle-aged,
and very few had ever had a sexually transmitted disease. "In 1992, we
asked the men who did not have prostate cancer to report their typical number
of ejaculations per month in their twenties, forties, and during the past
year," says Platz.
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Could a man's sexual activity have any
repercussions-one way or the other-on his risk of getting prostate cancer?
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Over the next
eight years, nearly 1,500 of these men went on to develop prostate cancer.
The
scientists found that men who reported more ejaculations-more than 21 a month,
on average across their adult life-had two-thirds the lifetime risk of prostate
cancer of men who reported fewer (4 to 7) ejaculations a month. Notes Platz:
"Compared with men reporting fewer ejaculations per month at all ages, men
who reported 21 or ejaculations per month had one-fourth the risk of prostate
cancer."
Certain
important features of this study make these observations more credible, she
adds. One is the sheer number of men involved; another is "the fact that
the men reported their ejaculation frequency well before they were diagnosed
with prostate cancer." Also, the scientists were able to rule out such
factors as a man's history of sexually transmitted diseases, which could have
clouded the results.
Another
recent study of many men, with and without prostate cancer, has produced
similar findings, says Platz. "Based on these two large, well-conducted
studies, men should not be worried that frequent ejaculation will cause
prostate cancer." The next step, she adds, is to figure out why frequent
ejaculation seems to have this protective effect, and the role inflammation
plays here.
I am one of those fortunate guys who has averaged more than 22 orgasms per month for the last 23 years or so. I would bet I am at about 30 / month over those years, with the occasional two-a-day canceling out the rare abstinence day.
So it seems that according to this study, Mistress's approach to her slave's orgasm management - whether intended or not - may assure that my chances of getting prostrate cancer are one third less than those of you who have less than 21 cums per month.
Of course, one can still draw the bad card and lose out, despite all that good behavior. We all know folks who have had heart attacks who eat well and exercise regularly. Sometimes your number is up despite the "odds".
But in terms of my own "happiness", and while toying with tease and denial every now and then can have a certain appeal, I am glad Mistress has elected to "stay the course" and continue pampering her house slave.
