If I may ask you, please tell me if the questions about the age, when adolescent masturbation began, and the length of the period of the adolescent masturbation have the sense from the sexological's point of view?

Would this question be important for you from the clinical point of view? Once again, does the age of beginning of adolescent masturbation and the duration of it during adolescence have the significance for sexual well being?. From sexual health's point of view, is there a difference if man masturbates 2, 10, or 80 years of his life? If all other components of sexual activities are the same...

Sincerely, Bob

Learning about one's body and how it responds sexually is very important to the health of the body. We will then take better care of our body if we know how it works and know that what we are doing feels good. We really don't know if a person began masturbating at age 2 if it enhances his/her physical health over starting at the age of 10. What we do know just was reported in the scientific literature this past few weeks.

Maybe this will help answer your question.

For more than two decades therapists have been arguing and teaching that regular sexual release was an important way to guard against future prostate problems. Of course no one could PROVE it, but it followed very directly from what we had learned about chronic pelvic muscle tension. Now researchers in Australia have documented the connection. Several key news references are pasted below. 2,100 more are available on Google news.

(Masturbation Can Prevent Prostate Cancer, Study Claims drkoop.com - Jul 18, 2003 The more often young and middle-age men ejaculate, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer.

Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer New Scientist, UK - Jul 16, 2003 A team in Australia led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne asked 1079 men with prostate cancer to fill in a questionnaire detailing ...

Masturbation could protect against prostate cancer, study ... Independent, UK - Jul 16, 2003 Masturbating more than five times a week between the ages of 20 and 50 could protect men against prostate cancer, Australian researchers claim today. ...

Masturbation may protect against prostate cancer says Aussie ... Ananova, UK - Jul 16, 2003 The Australian study questioned more than 2000 men about their past sexual habits as part of a prostate cancer study. "What we found ...

Masturbating Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk - Study Yahoo News - Jul 16, 2003 LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer (news - web sites) later in life, according to new research. ...

Masturbating lowers prostate cancer risk - study Reuters AlertNet, UK - Jul 16, 2003 LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research. ...

I hope this helps in some small way to answer your question.

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