In today's DM "Men who sleep with multiple women REDUCE their risk of prostate cancer"

Oh my BiL will likely live forever....in misery. His lovely lovely wife finally left him. His life has been miserable ever since.

I know that bags. I just get fed up with the constant DM-bashing.

Doesn't matter who published it, ana. It's still rubbish.

All girls should be taught how to use an elastrator band applicator before they start to have a social life.

https://www.animart.com/store/elastrator-applicator-large/

It takes weeny strong elastic bands and stretches them hugely and pops them neatly over, but then they are impossible to remove without a very steady hand and pair of sharp scissors. I often wished I had packed one in my handbag as a teen.

Well, my DH has prostate cancer, he will be kicking himself if he sees this!

Ana then they're all equally irresponsible!!!

Wishful thinking by male journalists?

If you google the headline, you'll see that it wasn't just the DM that reported this story! The Telegraph, Independent, Mirror and ScienceDaily plus many more also did...

janerowena That was exactly my reaction when I did the op. Irresponsible indeed! Luckily, there doesn't seem to be any follow-up on it, so perhaps it'll disappear.

I can't be the only one who feels like stringing up the odd journalist for being so irresponsible as to print such a stupid and potentially harmful piece of crap.

I was once on a course years ago as part of training for a HIV helpline and we were asked to say all the words we new for sexual intercourse so we weren't shocked or surprised when callers used their word for it- there were dozens of words for it.

Absent re "Sleeping with" We Brits are all too buttoned up or far to polite to use a more graphic word.

"Sleeping with" Always annoys me as a euphemism. Perhaps we should use Copulating instead!

What does sleeping have to do with it?

"Nice try chaps" indeed!

oop - have had my moments but DH is a born again virgin I have to force myself on him periodically!!!!

Just heard on the radio that a study done in America [I think] came to the conclusion that people who led a rock'n'roll lifestyle were more likely to die younger than those who didn't. I could have told them that for free .

Read the article. Not convinced. Here's why:

"The results were obtained as part of the Montreal study PROtEuS (Prostate Cancer & Environment Study), in which 3208 men responded to a questionnaire on, amongst other things, their sex lives."

It seems to have been a survey not a proper scientific study. Call me cynical but men would never lie about the number of their sexual partners now, would they?

When i showed this to Mrs P, she said "no chance for you now then!), cruel.

I suspect that an extreme number of conquests could just mean never getting old enough for prostate cancer.

When I told DH he said " Now you tell me!"

Yes but what other nasty infections can they pick up and pass on?

Yeah right. Nice try, chaps.