Posted by The Welcomed Consensus - Terry on July 17, 2009 at 14:53:

This article came out last October in the McGill University newspaper, which is the second most widely read newspaper in Canada.

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"Regular orgasms can lengthen your life – or so it seems. Many studies, conducted from the seventies to present, indicate that an energetic sex life can be good for you. Although the science of sexuality is still young, it isn’t coming down on the side of abstinence.

One 1997 study, by Dr. Davie Smith and colleagues, quizzed men on the frequency of their orgasms, and followed up ten years later. The findings: men having frequent orgasms had a 50 per cent lower mortality risk than men having infrequent orgasms. That is, after controlling for factors like age and social status, the study concluded that the more orgasms you have, the lower your risk of death.

Another study, conducted by Dr. Leon Abramov, examined the sex lives of 100 Israeli women. Its results were similar, finding that frigidity – an inability to experience orgasm, or indifference to sex – is correlated with heart attack. The women, who had already been hospitalized due to heart attack, took a 57-question interview about their sex lives. Their responses showed a disproportionate number of them to be frigid.

Orgasms may also prevent prostate cancer, according to two studies. An Australian study by Dr. Graham Giles and colleagues found that men who had over four orgasms a week from their twenties through their forties had a one-third lower risk of prostate cancer. And a 2004 American study by Dr. Michael Leitzmann and colleagues found the same thing: high ejaculation frequency is correlated with lowered risk of prostate cancer. The authors speculated that ejaculation might flush out carcinogens from the prostate, or perhaps help it to maintain healthy, new cells..."

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