23 April, 2008

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Men's Naughty Bits

Yet again researchers are claiming that masturbation may help prevent prostate cancer. There's nothing particularly new to this news and it's not as if men have needed a doctor's recommendation to lay stomach pancakes. Still, the study found that

Men who ejaculated more than five times each week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.

So now we have a benchmark. Five times a week? No problem.

In other news relating to male genitalia, many folks in Congo are angry about penis thieves.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

At least the police chief had some sense.

But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Wow! There are some hyper-insecure Congolese men, apparently. This would be funny except for the fact that some people are getting the crap beat out of them and some had lynching proceedings begun against them.

We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Superstition is not always so harmless.

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