Dear Curtis,

Yes, frisky is risky.

[From "Prostate Health", Aaron Katz, MD, 2006]

"Risk Factors"

"Studies have shown that men with PC have histories of greater sexual
actiivity and more bouts of veneral disease than men who don't have
prostate cancer.  This suggests a possible role for a sexually
transmitted gene".

However, this appears to contradict the following:

"Researchers investigated the risk of physical activity on relative
risk for PC.  They found that the relative risk of PC declined with
increasing levels of physical activity.  Men who were sedentary had a
111% risk of ending up with PC in comparison to men who were active.  
Other studies have suggested the same, but more research is needed to
elucidate the couch-potato-PC connection.

Finally, if you have a first-degree relative who is promiscuous and
lazy, that doubles your risk. :-)

[From  something posted here, 2004]

"[Afro-American] men ith prostate cancer also were more likely to
report having had more than one gonorrhea diagnosis and to have had
more than 25 sexual partners in their lifetimes. Men who had more than
25 sexual partners were more than 2.5 times more likely to have
prostate cancer than men with five or fewer partners.

"Although we are unable to show that gonorrhea directly causes
prostate cancer, we suspect the inflammatory effect of the gonorrhea
infection may trigger preexisting cancerous cells to multiply," said
lead author Aruna Sarma, an assistant research scientist in the
department of urology at University of Michigan Medical School."

Steve, can we do a survey?

Leah