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.

[NittanyLion]

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.

Agreed. I told me wife the same will be true when she turns 30. I mean, err...uhhh...50.

;-)

[Malsua]

Ya beat me to it ;)

My wife has the same idea.

[carlo3b]

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

Oh Yippie, well I guess it's possible that if this is true, I should look forward to a loooong life.. :)

[MadIvan]

If I recall correctly, there was a Yugoslavian fellow of similarly advanced years who attributed his longevity to doing precisely the opposite.

Regards, Ivan

[xJones]

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

You can run, but you can't hide. Good luck!:)

[Slings and Arrows]

80 years without sex, wow, just wow!

I wonder where he went to engineering school?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

A kind of Geriatric Dilbert? ;)

[gopheraj]

He's not 107 - he just feels like he's lived that long.

[OMalley]

LOL from a freepette

[Jaysun]

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

That's very true. But it would be hard for her to meet a virile stud whilst pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen. Bwwhhaaaaaa!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Let me guess. The guy has a high IQ like George Costanza when he quit sex.

[Shimmer128]

:D

Okkkkk, let's just hope all the kids look like you. Babe.

[Jaysun]

Okkkkk, let's just hope all the kids look like you. Babe.

Good point. I'm off to ebay to find a chastity belt.

[SC Swamp Fox]

My wife has cut me back to once-a-month.

But I shouldn't complain, she cut those other two guys off entirely.

[SC Swamp Fox]

I wonder where he went to engineering school?

That's cold...and will make it's way around the Engineering Department tomorrow.

[Slings and Arrows]

;^)

BTDT.

[SamAdams76]

Did the government ban sex too? If he could quit sex without the government than he has no excuse for not quitting smoking.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, 107, that's the reason...

[Proverbs 3-5]

Actually he's 30 years old, it just seems like 107 years...