Man aged 107 forsakes sex for longevity

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 2/24/07 | Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A 107-year-old Hong Kong villager, who still enjoys an occasional smoke, has attributed his longevity in part to decades of sexual abstinence, a newspaper said on Sunday.

"I don't know why I have lived this long," Chan Chi -- one of Hong Kong's oldest people -- was quoted as saying in the South China Morning Post during an annual feast for the city's elders.

"Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have lived a sex-less life for many years -- since I was 30," said Chan, a widower whose youthful bride perished during the Japanese invasion in World War Two.

Chan, from Hong Kong's less built-up New Territories hinterland, was pictured looking sprightly and eating heartily at the banquet.

A former chef, he said a low-fat diet and regular dawn exercises had helped him fight off the ravages of old age.

But the centenarian, who's had no difficulty living a monastic existence for nearly 80 years, admits the pleasures of tobacco have been harder to resist.

"Now I want to quit," he was quoted as saying of his decades-long cigarette addiction. "Maybe the government should ban cigarette sales so I can give it up," he added.

[wildcatf4f3]

I'd rather be dead

[txroadkill]

Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have lived a sex-less life for many years...

HA HA....Looks like I'll be dancing on my ex-wife's grave, she'll only have herself to blame!

[flashbunny]

I don't think it's forsaking sex that does it. It's probably forsaking dealing with women.

Less stress = better health = longer life.




I will now hide from the female freepers unable to take a joke. ;)

[Zeroisanumber]

I'd rather peter out at 80 than leave my peter out of the equation at 30.

[Kevmo]

For your not-a-ping list, if it's not too sad.

[Shimmer128]

I'm going to keep you young some other way.

[Slings and Arrows]

The cure is worse than the disease.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'm dying young, then. Happy for it, too.

[Cvengr]

I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence. Do you know, Mandrake, How the Chinese translate, "Our Precious Bodily Fluids"?

[Jaysun]

The key to staying young is keeping your women young. I've already told my wife that when she turns 50 I'm trading her in for two 25s.

[billybudd]

How is it sad? This guy has managed to avoid women, nature's pointy-stick-in-the-eye.

[metmom]

"Maybe the government should ban cigarette sales so I can give it up," he added.

Good Lord. Nanny state metality is rampant.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

"Now I want to quit," he was quoted as saying of his decades-long cigarette addiction. "Maybe the government should ban cigarette sales so I can give it up," he added.

I see he is adapting well to socialist rule in Hong Kong! :-P

80 years without sex, wow, just wow!

[MaryFromMichigan]

Well, it may not really help you live forever, but it sure would feel like it.

[Shimmer128]

Yeah, and you'd better watch she doesn't trade you in for some virile stud too Buster!! :D

[Shimmer128]

"The key to staying young is keeping your women young."

Pay attention!

[Ditter]

I always thought you were a female freeper, what with a name like bunny.

[Wormwood]

Apparently my wife wants us to live forever.

[Millee]

I can't believe you just said that mister!!!