Does frequent ejaculation contribute to a healthly prostate?

Don't know ... just asking.

Use it or loose it

Yes. Definitely.

The reality is that your body will ejaculate one way or another. If you don't ejaculate via sex or masturbation, you're going to ejaculate involuntarily via nocturnal emission (wet dream). Your body constantly produces all the components of semen. If they aren't released via ejaculation, you can develop congestion of the various organs. The prostate, being a spongy gland, tends to get particularly congested which can lead to inflammation (prostatitis) or infection.

Good points JD and always good to here a trained medical point of view.

My take is that our prostates are like the rest of our bodies in that if we have overall healthy practices like diet and exercise it will benefit not just our muscles but also our organs/glands. I like to workout and exercise my body and I look and feel better for doing so.

So I think the prostate is no different from the rest of our muscles. The best way to Exercise our prostate is to ejaculate semen. And if done on a regular basis I think it is beneficial and will likely help with its long term function and health.

Yes, I think the more you use it the more healthy it will stay. Exercise is a awesome thing.

Although I'm not a doctor, my medical background has afforded me many opportunities to discuss such topics with some of the best in the profession.

They all agree in one area, particularly:

With fairly frequent ejaculations, It's nearly impossible to experience prostate cancer, along with a few other male-oriented issues.

Afterall, it's not normal to withhold ejaculation, over a prolonged period of time. Never heard anything negative about 'Getting Off' too often!

I am not sure but I hope so. Frequent ejaculation is a whole lot more fun than exercise or a low fat diet.

I was told that it can keep your prostate from getting too big, which can cause problems. It certainly won't hurt it.

I have an enlarged prostate and my doctor me to masturbate 3 or 4 times a week. It may or may not help but it's enjoyable besides I now have an excuse of I get caught jerking off. My doctor told me to.

My doctor told me years ago that keeping the prostate fluids moving helps keep the gland healthy.

Count me as a skeptic:

1. Prostate cancer, as with any other cancer, comes from a faulty transmission of the DNA chain. Those chains get damaged with age and number of transmissions. I have no reason to think that frequent anything will have a significant effect on the error rate. Hell, I suppose one could reasonably conjecture that frequent ejaculation irritates tissue and increases risk of cancer as does smoking or sun exposure...but that seems just as unlikely to me.

2. We don't see an epidemic of sex maniacs dying of prostate cancer nor do we see those with low libido (if any males really have low libido) evading it.

3. I am suspicious of any health benefits attributed to something enjoyable. They seem too much like an excuse. Wine drinking, masturbation, chocolate...prolonging life? Maybe they do, but I would be more impressed if they were touted by people who hate alcohol, sex and candy.

Regular orgasms and ejaculation is more of a help for prevention of inflammation and infection than cancer prevention.

Here's an example.

Leukemia is a product of age and ill-luck. So are other cancers except some can be brought on by age, ill-luck and irritation as in the bowel or chemical stress (such as smoking), or UV light (sunbathing, ).

Read the link and you sure don't get the idea that some normal activity is gonna make much difference if done or avoided.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2015/02/26/gene-mutations-tied-to-leukemia-rise-with-age-study-finds

Well, I'm not taking any chances 😃

Wait, wait!!!

I was wrong. Frequent masturbation cuts down on how much you smoke (unless you smoke with one hand and play with the other). So frequent masturbation does likely reduce cancer.

And, for those hoping to advance puritanism, smoking probably reduces masturbation especially if the smoker is not ambidextrous. Works both ways.

Glad to clear that up.

According to Dr. Edward M. Wagner's Book "How To Stay Out Of The Doctor's Office", to Prevent an Enlarged Prostate, " Ejaculate at least two times a week. The method is unimportant and can depend upon circumstances and the individual's personal preferences. This prevents semen from Stagnating in the Prostate. Don't hold back ejaculation. It causes pressure on the prostate cells, and they may rupture." He offers several alternative methods: One is, "Self massage. Insert a lubricated finger (you can wear a latex finger guard) into the rectum and massage. You have to go in 2 to 3 inches and rub toward the front of the body to reach the prostate." Dr. Wagner encourages males to "ejaculate at least two times a week and the method is unimportant." If we can't find a partner to have sex with to ejaculate, then I prefer the alternative of Ejaculating By Masturbating while thoroughly Enjoying my Hot Goat's Milk Soapsuds & Glycerin Enema Sessions, with an Aneros Prostate Massager Muze multifunction Vibrator attached to my Large Colon Master Enema Nozzle to help with a good Prostate Massage while my prostate is being heated from the Hot Enema Solution combined with the Heat from the Hot Water in my Red Rubber Hot Water Bottle on my Scrotum. Try this combination, you'll love it. Dr. Wagner doesn't put a cap on the number of times you should ejaculate per week, So enjoy all the Ejaculations you want & and use whatever method you so desire, until I die and the obituary says I died from Prostate Cancer and the cause was from My Ejaculating too much from my Masturbating while taking my Enemas; then Dr. Wagner's book was Wrong and you should Stop the abnormal ejaculations or slow down on the number of Ejaculations per week by Masturbating. Until this happens,Enjoy your Ejaculations by whatever methods you so desire. Personally, if I had my choice, I would rather die while ejaculating, by having Sex with a partner or by Masturbating, than Being an invalid in an Old Folks Home waiting to die. I would rather die in action than with no action at all. Keep up with the Sex, the Hot Enemas & the Masturbation to keep your Prostate Warm & Pumping. This combination should serve as a Prevention for Colon Cancer and Prostate Cancer. If I die of Colon Cancer and/or Prostate Cancer within a year, I was wrong.

Wait, wait!!!

I was wrong. Frequent masturbation cuts down on how much you smoke (unless you smoke with one hand and play with the other). So frequent masturbation does likely reduce cancer.

And, for those hoping to advance puritanism, smoking probably reduces masturbation especially if the smoker is not ambidextrous. Works both ways.

Glad to clear that up.

Masturbation will INCREASE how much you smoke if you light up after you cum! 😁 😁

Even if it doesn't help prevent cancer, I sure as hell don't want to think I missed a whole bunch of ejaculations just in case it doesn't help. Jerk away, I say. Pleasure has always been preferable to stress, in my opinion, and stress is thought to be a contributing factor to many cancers.

I try to ejaculate very often and I can say I have not any problem with my prostate, while a lot of my fellows of the same age often complain of difficulties during urination.

Studies have shown men who ejaculate frequently have a decreased risk of prostate issues.

Several years ago, I say my doctor with a touch of prostatitis. During a follow up visit, he offered to write me a prescription to ejaculate frequently if I wanted him to for the sake of "prostate health".

100 percent solo masturbant!

I'm proud to be a masturbator.

For me wanker or masturbator is not a dirty word. I like being a masturbator and proud of it.

Apart from that, most people masturbate anyway.

For me, sexual activity is masturbation.

I mean that masturbation is a basic need like eating, drinking and breathing.

And besides, the masturbation is also fun. I've been masturbating almost every day for 63 years now and I still enjoy it.

In addition, the masturbation has the advantage that you can masturbate with not quite erect penis. Because with the erection I have a problem since my age of 62 years. I am now 72 years old. Daily masturbation is very good for the penis and for the prostate. This can also be seen in my pictures after 27 532 masturbations in 63 years.

I am proud to be in such a large company of masturbators.

The most explicit my doctors got was suggesting that I should keep it flushed out.

Yes, it's pretty well established that frequent ejaculations are strongly correlated with a healthy prostate.

It certainly can't hurt! Would be interesting to know whether men who are in chastity devices and denied orgasm for extended periods have a greater incidence of prostate issues than those who ejaculate frequently.

whether men who are in chastity devices and denied orgasm for extended periods

Maybe they get their prostate flushed by internal massage with a nicely sized strapon? Does that count? 😉

I was once told not to ejaculate just prior to a prostate exam or your PSA will test higher than normal. I ejaculated twice the day before a blood draw - and it jumped from 1.5 to 2.2. A year later my PSA was down again to 1.5. Don't know that it makes it healthier - but there is a cause and effect relationship.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8638359

They (studies) say to take a day off of ejaculation or prostate massage for a more accurate reading. The downside is that I used to always make sure that I had ejaculated recently and was empty before a doctor's appointment in order to minimize the risk of unwanted erections. Now I don't know if I should do that.

Of course in the study footnotes they say that it's usually just a few tenths of a nanogram, and for absolute best accuracy the PSA should be drawn prior to the DRE. I think that your 1.5 -> 2.2 jump might have had some other reasons.

The consensus so far seems to be that frequent ejaculation is beneficial to prostate health, but the timing of ejaculation may affect PSA readings (which I've been given to believe are not that reliable anyway). The question that remains for me is what "frequent" means. Do we all have our own "frequent"?

At least twice a week.

I don't recall the reference but the critical statistical points for not enough was 7 per month and over 23 to have a noticeable benefit.