Study: More sex may help damaged sperm

[Beacool]

By MARIA CHENG, AP
June 30, 2009

LONDON – For men with fertility problems, some doctors are prescribing a very conventional way to have a baby: more sex.

In a study of 118 Australian men with damaged sperm, doctors found that having sex every day for a week significantly reduced the amount of DNA damage in their patients' sperm. Previous studies have linked better sperm quality to higher pregnancy rates.

The research was announced Tuesday at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam.

Dr. David Greening of Sydney IVF, a private fertility clinic in Australia, and colleagues looked at 118 men who had damaged sperm. Greening and colleagues told the men to have sex every day for a week. After seven days, the doctors found that in 81 percent of the men, there was a 12 percent decrease in the amount of damaged sperm.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_sperm_damage

Just the excuse men needed........

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Every day for a WEEK?

I think most men would be exhausted by then!

But......maybe not...


What a way to go!

:toast:

[shadowknows69]

2. In my youth

[Soylent Brice]

4. exhausted?? not this one.

if i could only be so lucky...

:rofl:

[Beacool]

10. You must be awfully young.

;)

[Soylent Brice]

19. 29 yrs old next month.

is that young?

[Beacool]

23. Young enough to still have a healthy sex appetite.

The older guys, not so much........

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[pipi_k]

24. Ironically...

My first husband died that way in 2002.

Not with me...

his third wife.

They had just come back home from bowling and having pizza and had a "quickie"

His wife is in the bathroom and hears this godawful noise from the bedroom...believing the hubby is kidding, she thinks nothing of it till he starts to look a little blue.

Massive heart attack at the age of 53. He was probably already gone by time the paramedics arrived.

Any man I've ever told this to gave a thumbs up and said "What a way to go!"

[Beacool]

30. I'm so sorry.

Wasn't this the same way that Rockefeller died? Except that he was with his mistress.

Come to think of it, why does it happen only to men? I never heard of a woman dropping dead in the middle of the action.

;(

[CrownPrinceBandar]

3. The pick-up lines write themselves.............

"Hey baby. Wanna come back to my place? I got some damaged sperm and I need your help."

[Alcibiades]

5. Ejaculating is like going to the bathroom

It's best not to hold it in. For a variety of reasons, men's health is better when they are ejaculating on a regular basis. Like any organ, if you don't use it, it will atrophy, though I doubt that having sex is any better than masturbating for this purpose.

[uponit7771]

25. Yeap, learned this the hard way in college...couldn't walk for a few days until some nice lady...

...told me what was goin on.

sigh....those were the days

[Laelth]

6. More sex makes the world a better place. I knew it! n/t

:fistbump:

:dem:

-Laelth

[Echo In Light]

7. "Every sperm is sacred...."

Monty Python's Meaning of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8

[fishwax]

18. lol -- i just posted that same link

but in a different thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5957929

[Echo In Light]

32. Jung's theory of synchronicity at work

[JHB]

8. EVERY day? Well, ok, but...

...don't expect me to like it!

:evilgrin:

[Beacool]

9. I knew it!!!

Lot's of guys are smiling from ear to ear. I can see you, don't deny it!!!

They will probably print the article and show it to their girlfriends and wives.

"But honey, it's for health reasons. You don't what the quality of my sperm to drop, do you?"

Men........

:eyes:



:evilgrin:

[scheming daemons]

11. You mean I have to cut back to just ONCE per day?

:-(


heh

[Beacool]

12. Braggart!!!

I bet you also claim that yours is the size of a deli salami.

:P

[scheming daemons]

14. A deli pickle maybe....

;-)

[Beacool]

16. OK, that's more like it.

:7

[xchrom]

13. well -- if i HAVE to --nt

[cliffordu]

15. Ah, well...Ya wanna make an omelette, ya gotta break a few....

[monmouth]

17. Now see? If Sanford had any kind of imagination or creativity, this

"reasoning" may have worked...LOL.

[Beacool]

21. Guys will try and say ANYTHING to get laid.

Women have heard it all, haven't we?

:eyes:



:7

[scheming daemons]

26. Which is why older men go after younger women who HAVEN'T "heard it all" yet...

;-)

[Beacool]

29. Oh, I see.........

So that's the trick!! Get them while they are young and dumb.

:D

[rucky]

20. Do they need volunteers for further studies?

[Beacool]

22. Oh, geez...........

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[uponit7771]

27. Ejaculation also helps reduce chances of certain cancers. If you need "volume" though every day

...for 3-5 days straight then hold for 2 days and you've got it.

A lot of men later on in life have a volume issue from lowered "use" relative to younger days.

[Beacool]

39. That's why they invented hands.

I had a good friend who is a riot and always says: "Better a good hand than a bad man".

Well, I guess that it also applies to guys when there's no one else to ...ahem....help them with this problem.

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[bridgit]

28. People! Stop using "I have a headache" to shirk your sexual responsibilities when...

it has been suggested that sex *cures* migraines http://www.greendaily.com/2008/02/06/sex-your-headache-away :thumbsup: So there goes that excuse but then it's all like Ooo-WHut!? *damaged sperm!?* More sex please! :)

[Beacool]

31. People? You mean women.

I never heard a guy say: "Not tonight honey, I got a headache."

Most guys are in the mood even if they have a butcher knife stuck on their back. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[seabeyond]

33. i never heard a woman say it either. seems to be a forever dig at women. n/t

[bridgit]

35. The Russian study mentioned men, but in conjunction with a Vodka hangover though...

why I'd care to have sex with a Russian to alleviate his Vodka hangover was blissfully left out of the data

[Beacool]

37. Why would any woman care about helping her mate get rid of a hangover

is a mystery to me. Personally, the few times that I had a bad hangover, sex was the last thing on my mind. It seemed more important at the time to make the room stop from spinning and cursing the bastard who kept moving the toilet bowl. LOL!!

:7

[bridgit]

40. hahahaha, now where'd that damn toilet go to?

:spray:

[Beacool]

41. I don't know.

But two of my friends found me sitting on the bathroom floor hugging the toilet because supposedly it kept moving. I was 19 and had to lie to my mother because she would have killed me. She thought that the reason why I could barely lift my head off the pillow the following morning was due to a stomach virus.

Ahhhh, the messes we get into in youth. I wonder how we all survived the teenage years?

First:
:beer:

Then:
:puke:

:silly:

[Beacool]

38. Well, it was the standard excuse of another era.

A polite way of saying: "Not in this life or the next, buddy."

:D

[Missy Vixen]

34. I've met a few women who wish their guy was more into it

>Most guys are in the mood even if they have a butcher knife stuck on their back.<

Not always... ;-)

[Beacool]

36. Actually, all joking aside, I know what you mean.

There are some friends who complain about having that problem. I think that sometimes guys have health issues or are under a lot of stress and not in the mood. I think that men tend to be more reluctant to talk about the reason for their lack of sexual desire than women.

The bottom line is, as in any relationship, communication. Couples need to be honest about what's going on with them or the relationship is not going to last.

[Arkana]

42. "Giggity giggity gig-git-ty."