The upside of Portnoy's Complaint?

Frequent ejaculation may be protective against prostate cancer. Men who reported ejaculating more than 20 times a month cut their risk by one-third in a study published in the April 7 Journal of the American Medical Association.

But in this Bloomberg story, the researchers downplayed the headline-grabbing result because there were few men in the group reporting the highest frequency of ejaculation (7 percent of the nearly 30,000 men in the study).