Masturbation Can Prevent Diabetes and Cancer - Experts Say It's Good For Your Health

We'v heard a lot of negative myths about masturbation from how it can cause blindness, insanity, to loss of vital organs and many other health hazards.

Now two academics are on a mission to set the record straight about masturbation - and highlight all the health benefits it can bring.

Anthony Santella, a public health scientist at the University of Sydney and his colleague Spring Chenoa Cooper, a senior lecturer, say self-pleasuring can ward off a host of illnesses, from cystitis, diabetes to prostate cancer.

[VIDEO] University Students Go Nude For Cancer Charity

In bid to raise money for charity, Students from a ladies university rowing club who posed nude for a risque calendar last year have ignored criticism once again - by posing completely naked again this year.

The students from Warwick University Rowing Society caused controversy in 2012 after their naked photographs were branded ‘tacky’ and ‘sexist’.

See video after the cut *..and remember 'guys', its for charity. ^.^ *

[HEARTBREAKING PHOTOS] 5-year-old Girl's Final Days With Brain Cancer

5-year-old Caroline Cronk from Massachusetts, was diagnosed with a type of brain cancer called intrinsic pontin glioma. The disease shuts down pathways that control life functions one by one, like flipping a switch. It also affects the person's motor control and vision and strikes some 200 children a year.

When Rachael Cronk brought her daughter Caroline, 5, to the emergency room one November evening in 2012, it was because her little girl was falling in dance class.
 

She didn't know that tumour in her brain was already affecting her daughter's motor control and vision.