hisannabelle
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i recommend checking out this page on scarleteen; although it deals mainly with the blue balls phenomenon as it's commonly thought of, it goes through the physiological issues associated with vasocongestion, and concludes that lack of ejaculation is not necessarily damaging to your health...vasocongestion can go away with time or with a non-ejaculating orgasm as well. quote:
Vasocongestion is taken care of rather easily. Orgasm (ejaculatory or nonejaculatory) -- either with a partner or through masturbation -- will make the pain and swelling go away. Alternately, letting the arousal simply fade out with rest or other nonsexual acticity will also make vasocongestion go toodle-oo. In addition, a cold or warm compress or shower can be used, as can an analgesic like ibuprofen or aspirin to alleviate the pain, or some simple physical activity like running, walking or other sports. based on this information, it would seem that ejaculation isn't necessarily required for normal, healthy functioning. here is a snippet of an article on yahoo! health about ejaculation and relationship to infertility: quote:
Frequent (daily) or infrequent (every 10 to 14 days) ejaculation, either of which can temporarily lower sperm count. from http://health.yahoo.com/topic/reproductive/prevention/article/healthwise/hw203764;_ylt=Aofrbkblxlxfxz83qROMNhZLvs8F - an article on what increases a risk of infertility in men this is from a study on ejaculation frequency as it relates to prostate cancer: quote:
RESULTS: During 222 426 person-years of follow-up, there were 1449 new cases of total prostate cancer, 953 organ-confined cases, and 147 advanced cases of prostate cancer. Most categories of ejaculation frequency were unrelated to risk of prostate cancer. However, high ejaculation frequency was related to decreased risk of total prostate cancer. The multivariate relative risks for men reporting 21 or more ejaculations per month compared with men reporting 4 to 7 ejaculations per month at ages 20 to 29 years were 0.89 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.73-1.10); ages 40 to 49 years, 0.68 (95% CI, 0.53-0.86); previous year, 0.49 (95% CI, 0.27-0.88); and averaged across a lifetime, 0.67 (95% CI, 0.51-0.89). Similar associations were observed for organ-confined prostate cancer. Ejaculation frequency was not statistically significantly associated with risk of advanced prostate cancer. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that ejaculation frequency is not related to increased risk of prostate cancer. from: the journal of the american medical association http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/13/1578 based on the actual physical processes of orgasm, ejaculation, and vasocongestion, it would seem to me as though frequency of ejaculation shouldn't matter all that much health-wise, except perhaps in terms of fertility, but based on the article i found, even that can be temporary. just thought i'd google some medical info on this and post it to see if that helps. i personally don't have an opinion about it...if it works for you, do it. the best thing would be to talk to your doctor about it, though.
< Message edited by hisannabelle -- 2/25/2007 6:08:22 PM >
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