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* Removal of toxins built up over a lifetime reduces the risk of 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 done 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.
Prostate cancer is known to be driven by the male hormone testosterone, and men with high levels of testosterone tend to have a higher sex drive and a higher risk of the cancer.
But most research has examined older men because prostate cancer is unusual under 50. Researchers at the University...