Chapter 2 Benefits of Prostate Massage

Prostate massage moves stagnant fluids out of the prostate and provides a powerful health benefit for the gland. Prostate massage can also be an amazing sexual technique.

By sitting all day, as most men now do, we restrict the flow of blood to the prostate. This is one of the causes of our prostate troubles, especially when combined with all the other factors discussed in my book, Healthy Prostate, such as diet and exposures to chemical toxins.

Prostate massage is great for your health and pleasure. It can be done both externally and internally. It is something for men to use by themselves or for their partners to do with them. It can be done with or without sexual intent, and I cover both in this book. For now, let’s talk about it just from the health point of view.

Prostate massage, both internal and external, is a wonderful technique to learn. Why? Because massage increases prostate health by improving blood circulation within the prostate and by removing stagnant fluids by releasing prostate fluids.

External prostate massage is a great way to reap the benefits of massage but is unlikely to remove as much stagnant prostate fluids as internal prostate massage. Nevertheless, external prostate massage is well worth doing.

Prostate massage therapy is the name used for therapeutic prostate massage, which is done internally.

Prostate massage was a standard procedure until about 60 years ago. It was quite common for a doctor to provide internal prostate massage in the case of an enlarged prostate or of prostatitis. This technique would often provide the relief needed for either of these conditions.

With the advent of modern antibiotics, the practice was abandoned. Too bad, because in many cases the antibiotics do not work for the condition. Then the practice ebbed away, although the benefits are still acknowledged among doctors.

These days the practice of prostate massage is making a comeback as men learn the benefits for overall prostate health and sexual fulfillment.

You might enjoy this article: Prostate Massage Reduces Cancer Risk.

You may be able to find a prostate massage therapist in your area. This may be a good option for you if you do not want to learn how to do it yourself, but it is easy to learn.

Removal of stagnant fluids from within the prostate can easily happen without an erection or ejaculation. With internal massage, sometimes fluid can come out of a non-erect penis.

If you are doing it alone or with someone you trust, you can choose to add sexual stimulation to the massage. Because the massage helps empty the prostate of fluids, the orgasm experienced with sexual prostate massage can be truly enjoyable and intense. I discuss sexual massage further in Chapter 4.

Prostate massage makes a big difference to your prostate health either in preventing prostate problems or in helping to heal a prostate condition. Massage benefits you and your prostate in two significant ways:

1. It increases freshly oxygenated blood flow to your prostate.
2. It releases fluids and flushes toxins.

With prostate massage, a wonderful sensation may flood the prostate area; you may or may not experience any release of prostatic fluids. Men with a prostate condition, such as an enlarged prostate, may release none or only a few drops of prostate milk.

You should ask your health practitioner for advice on whether prostate massage can be beneficial for you. There have been instances where vigorous massage has caused more harm than good. That’s why careful and gentle prostate massage techniques are essential. (See Chapter 4 for more about safe prostate massage.)

External prostate massage is the easiest to do and can be as simple as doing Kegel exercises, which are discussed in depth at the end of this chapter.

Prostate Milk

Why is it called prostate milk? When you massage the prostate non-sexually, the only fluid that is released is that which is made right in the prostate.

When you have a full sexual orgasm, this fluid is added to the ejaculate that is formed in other reproductive organs (the testes and the seminal vesicles).

Prostate milk protects the sperm and enhances the chance of impregnation in women. This fluid is a naturally milky-colored fluid and thus is known as prostate milk.

Prostate milking massage, prostate drainage and prostate gland flushing are all terms used to describe prostate massage because it is often possible to excrete these prostatic fluids from the prostate without an erection or orgasm. This fluid does not contain any sperm from the testicles.

When men ejaculate during orgasm, the sticky semen contains

1. sperm from the testicles,
2. fluids from two small glands — the seminal vesicles — located right beside and above the prostate, and produce about 60% of the seminal fluid, and
3. alkaline fluids — prostate milk — from the prostate, about 30 to 35% of the semen.

Prostate Exercises

Prostate exercise strengthens the prostate and helps cleanse it of toxins by increasing blood flow through it. After all, the prostate is both a gland that secretes seminal fluids, is a muscle that pumps it out for our pleasure, and is a filter that removes toxins.

As the prostate is both a gland and a muscle, prostate exercises help keep the prostate toned. So exercising the prostate makes good sense.

An added bonus of prostate exercising is that it helps you control ejaculation and the duration and strength of your erections. Nice bonuses. Sign me up!

Prostate exercise happens by engaging your pubococcygeus or PC muscle. Kegel exercises, or pelvic floor exercises, are the name used for both men and women to strengthen the PC muscle. It stretches from the pubic bone to the tailbone, supporting the inner organs of the pelvic area and the function of the sphincter muscles (anal and bladder sphincters).

In men, Kegel exercises also help to squeeze the prostate gland, which allows more blood to flow through it and helps to cleanse it.

That’s why prostate or Kegel exercises for men are recommended for treating prostate conditions like enlargement, from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and prostatitis, inflammation of the prostate. Kegel exercises can also be used for treating urinary incontinence because these exercises strengthen the bladder sphincter.

For women reading this book, you can do the same exercises.

Kegel exercises will strengthen your pelvic muscles and organs. As a result, it will heighten your sensations during sex. Within 2 weeks, you will be able to squeeze your vagina muscles tight. I will leave it to you to imagine the pleasurable benefits of this skill for you and your partner!

Do you know how to squeeze your PC muscle? It’s really simple. Just squeeze your stop-pee (and stop-pooh) muscle next time you are urinating to stop the flow completely. That’s what you want to exercise — your PC muscle. Just tighten all the muscles around the scrotum and anus. It automatically engages the prostate and you are on your way.

You can now do this exercise several times a day anywhere — while sitting, driving, walking, talking, or now while you are reading this book! Squeeze, hold, release. That’s it. The world’s easiest exercise and perhaps also the most beneficial! And only you know you are doing it!

To get the most benefit from it, you need to do sets. You can vary:

Beginner Level

1. Breathe deeply while doing the exercises, remembering to clench only the PC muscle.
2. Squeeze and release quickly 10 times. Do three reps with a 10-second break between them.
3. Squeeze and hold for 10 seconds. Do three reps with a 10second break between them.
4. You’ve just done one set. Repeat for a total of three sets for the day.
5. Repeat this process every day for 1 to 2 weeks.

Intermediate Level

1. Breathe deeply while doing the exercises, remembering to clench only the PC muscle.
2. Squeeze and release quickly 20 times. Do three reps with a 10-second break between them.
3. Squeeze and hold for 20 seconds. Do three reps with a 10second break between them.
4. You’ve just done one set. Repeat for a total of three sets for the day.
5. Repeat this process every day for 1 to 2 weeks.

Advanced Level

1. Breathe deeply while doing the exercises, remembering to clench only the PC muscle.
2. Squeeze and release quickly 30 times. Do three reps with a 10-second break between them.
3. Squeeze and hold for 30 seconds. Do three reps with a 10second break between them.
4. You’ve just done one set. Repeat for a total of three sets for the day.
5. You can do a mix-up: squeeze 30 then hold one for 30 seconds.
6. Repeat this process every day for 1 to 2 weeks.

Master Level

This is a whole body exercise that strongly squeezes your prostate and stomach muscles at the same time. The breathing is advanced yogic breathing.

1. Breathe deeply, ideally in and out through the nose while doing the exercises.
2. You are going to squeeze not only the prostate with PC contractions but the whole body at the same time and in particular the stomach muscles.
3. Bend your legs into a semi-crouch, legs hip width apart, hands leaning on your knees, arms straight, fingers splayed downwards.
4. While breathing deeply through the nose, arch your back into a concave shape: bum out and up, head up, and small of the back arched so the belly extends to the ground.
5. Then, come upwards into a quarter crouch, with knees still bent a bit.
6. While breathing out powerfully through your nose from the base of your diaphragm, arch your back into a convex rounded position, as hands move up to mid-thigh level, arms straight, head downwards.
7. Pretend you have a lemon inside your stomach, and you need to squeeze all the juice out of it by clenching and lifting your PC muscle upwards while pulling your stomach deeply inwards towards your spine.
8. Tighten (contract) every muscle in your body while pulling up on your kneecap muscles, thigh muscles engaged, and holding all the squeezes, energy moving upwards.
9. Hold for 10 seconds then release back down to the start position (see Step 3). Breathe in through the nose and repeat Steps 3 to 9 of the exercise.

Note: If your stomach muscles are not strong already, then 10 reps is way too many. It’s not that you won’t be able to do them but, 2 to 4 hours later, your stomach will be in agony. Start with three reps and work your way up to 10 over a couple of weeks.

Remember to do your prostate exercises every day. These are especially easy to do when you are waiting at traffic lights or

watching TV. Put those down times to good use and your prostate will sing its praises!