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[Jenny A]

Jenny, the Catholic Church has been around for 2,000 years. Today, there are 1.2 billion of us. We've been fruitful and we've multiplied. I don't think having a few celibate priests sitting on the sidelines has caused us to miss our quotas.

As for your first point, some of the guys here may be troubled to read this from WebMD:

WebMD News Archive

Jan. 27, 2009 -- Frequent masturbation in young men is linked to higher risk of early prostate cancer, but it lowers prostate cancer risk for men in their 50s, a study shows.

High levels of male sex hormones, or androgens, may increase a man's risk of prostate cancer. But different studies of this question, done in different ways, have reached different conclusions.

I'm not worried about running out of Catholics, you guys and the Mormons are infamous for fertility.   I'm merely commenting that Jesus said, don't marry unless you really have to and the OT encourages marriage.  It's just one more rupture between the OT and NT that suggest you've got different god's there.

As to prostate cancer your 2009 study was small just 834 men.  The Harvard study ending in 2003 was massive and comprehensive using 29,000 men. IT and the Australian study using 2300 men reached the conclusion that frequent ejaculation does reduce prostate cancer risk by 36% or there abouts. http://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/...ate-cancer  http://urology.jhu.edu/newsletter/prosta...cer712.php