Masturbation Can Help Protect Men Over Fifty Against Prostate Cancer

Masturbation Can Help Protect Men Over Fifty Against Prostate Cancer

Masturbation may be good for you -- or bad, depending on your age. The solitary sexual activity that is widely practised but little discussed, is linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer when practised frequently by young men in their twenties and thirties, doctors say.

But by the time men reach their fifties, it may protect against the disease because it helps remove toxins that have built up over a lifetime.

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