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Cell Phone Use May Be Bad For Your Sperm
imaginaryelf writes, "WebMD reports that researchers have found a link between hours of cell phone use and sperm quality. 'In a study led by researchers from The Cleveland Clinic, men who used their cell phones the most had poorer sperm quality than those who used them the least.' We Slashdotters know that correlation does not equal causation, so further research is needed to understand the link, but just in case, maybe men should cut back on the hours of cell phone use?"
Hey, what I lack in quality, I make up for in quantity.
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I'll just not let my sperm use the phone.
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Do you suppose it could have something to do with keeping your arm elevated for four hours per day holding up the phone? That's hardly healthy, and would certainly have circulatory impact.
John
I think the kind of jerk who is always on a cell phone is the kind of jerk with low quality sperm to begin with.
My sperm are the size of M&M's and they have teeth and can't be killed by conventional weapons. Do I use a cell phone all day?
Hell no. If I want someone to know something, I punch it in Morse code right on their forehead.
A lack of quality sperm causes high cell phone usage!
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Who needs a condom, I've always got my T610 in my jeans' pocket.
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I'm just afraid that teenage boys will read this and try using their cell phone as a contraceptive device. "Come on, babe, it's safe... you know I'm on the cell at least an hour a day..."
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*spits out white russian* Increases! Let me tell you a little something about The Dude. ++ for the movie reference above. I have a conflict of interest you see, as I'm not a phone person.
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considering I keep my cellphone in my pants pocket most of the time.
oh well
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it still tastes the same
I'd prefer not to have some snot-nosed crying kid taking away form my /. time... ;)
That's great. I'm going to have to purchase more minutes. I might even try to find a pair of pants with a cellphone pocket in the front.
I've really got to get a hottub soon, too. I've wanted one of my own ever since the first time I got in one, but what REALLY sealed the deal for me was the fact that prolonged exposure to heat kills sperm. No wonder hottubs are an indispensable portion of the Californian lifestyle; if you're going to have a ton of hot sex, it's a good idea to be infertile.
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Perhaps some of those people who are on their cellphone 8 hours a day should not be reproducing anyway
If your use of the cell phone is affecting your sperm count, perhaps you're using it wrong.
Hmm, I wonder if it's actually using the cell phone that's the problem, or the fact that I carry the phone around in my pants pocket. I suppose I'm sending my little swimmers micro-doses of microwave radiation. Or perhaps it's that more use means more ringing, which causes more radiation while still in the pocket. Personally, I suspect that those heavy cell phone users already had low sperm counts.
I wonder if in addition to sperm count/"quality", if it increases genertic mutations within the sperm cells. That would seem to be a much bigger societal health concern.
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Not to mention that "low quality" could very well mean sperm with damaged DNA, but still alive and mobile. That's worse than having no sperm at all, IMO.
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Bender: "What should we point it at first?"
Fry: "I dunno. Try it on me!" *zap* "Ow! My sperm!"
Bender: "Wow! Neat! Mind if I try that again?" *zap*
Fry: "Huh, didn't hurt that time."
I know it'll be bad for the one obnoxious cellphone dude who takes the same bus as me, since I'm just three more 50 Cent ringtones away from kicking him sqare in the junk.
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I knew I shouldn't have let my sperm use cellphones... :(
Let's think about this for a minute. If a man is on his cell phone for hours per day, who exactly is he talking to? It's probably, uh, his girlfriend/wife.
And I just got my vasectomy. *Now* I learn the cheaper/less painful way.
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When I first got my cell phone, I would notice periodically that monitors would flicker, radios shout static, and lights would sometimes dim. I soon tracked this behavior to whenever my phone would check for new emails, update its clock, or right before an incoming call. Thinking of this electronic phenomenon and the fact the phone was cozily hugging my nuts in my front jeans pocket, I bought a little phone holster and set it on my hip. Do you think I'm being paranoid?
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So, there might be a connection? A suspected decline? They don't even know if the decline is real? This is an article about nothing.
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I'm pretty sure the thousands of hours I have in the data center and at the radio station inside their respective effective faraday cages have had much, much more effect on my little guys' triathalon abilities than using my cell phone has.
Nothing will fry your junk better than having huge EMF-emitting devices surrounding your crotchal region for eight hours a day, six days a week.
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"Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Jack. Eh? Look, eh? And I talk a lot on the cell phone. I'm what you might call a cell phone man, Jack - that's what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie."
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Depending on the type of vasectomy, you might want to check up on whether it has worked as it ought. Some types are prone to failure.
Theres enough people walking about the place already - crank the power up and fry a few adults, never mind their sperm I say! Why is it that the human race is intent on messing the place up by over breeding and screwing up the planet with waste. Six billion ought to be enough of anything, even Natalie Portmans with hot grits, well maybe six billion of those would be ok. Its just not good enough blaming it on someone else, "God made me do it" is not an excuse and "I did it to get housing benefit" is just insane. And whats with the Eco freaks - their more likely than anybody to be chilling out with a large brood of bearded be-sandled offspring.
Mobil phones use verses sperm count is just so hugely ridiculously unbelievably trivial that I cant believe you haven't all gone and died of diminished brain function in the middle of last night. What is spectacularly obvious is that the odds of being killed in an automobile accident before you can fire off those sperm and add to the mountains of flesh tramping over the planet are magnitudes higher.
And whilst your at it take up smoking and help clear a bit more space for the coming generations.
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That's fine, I wasn't using it anyway.
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...how would that be a bad thing? My wife never needs to know I said that. ^_^ (and that was a rhetorical question)
I don't know about Coke out, but a dose of coke in is about 50 mg.
Is that a treo in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Yeah, it's a treo. Condoms are expensive.
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Cell phones: the new birth control!
..would this make it a bad idea to dial the phone with your testicles?
I can no longer sit back and allow Cell Phone Company infiltration, Cell Phone Company indoctrination, Cell Phone Company subversion, and the international Cell Phone Company conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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I was wondering the same thing.
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Don't be so sure. The frequency of the photons matters a lot. That's why a bright day's sunlight turned into X or gamma rays will kill you dead.
It would be strange indeed if FM radio waves, which have a very low energy per photon, could do any serious harm to a body. Little in our body resembles an antenna big enough to download them. Cell phone waves are much higher frequency, of course, but exposure to them is still nothing like our daily exposure to visible, IR, UV, radio and every other photonimal in the electromagnetic zoo from old Sol overhead.
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...I am willing to assume that correlation equals causation. It is now proven: Men with low sperm-quality talk more on the phone than men with good sperm-quality. Women (who doesn't even have sperm), talk even more!
Might wanna take a good hard look at them sometime :)
Given the number of people on this planet and the resource drain we cause, is this a bad thing?
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This brings new meaning to the phrase "cum hoc ergo propter hoc."
How many old people do you see with cell phones?
Now you know why they call it generational warfare.
You've all fallen into our clever plan.
... after 4 kids :) 2 of which were conceived whilst on the waiting list for 'the snip'. There's no such thing as an emergency vasectomy apparently.
Still... you've got to wonder what kind of kinky phone sex would be involved to actually have radiation reach the testes in any quantity. "My penis would like a word with you... i'll put him on".
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I didn't see anything about controlling for age. I would expect age to be correlated with wealth, and cellphone time, and fertility problems.
It seems like someone does a study that supports conclusion A, and then everyone says, "But we really need more studies to be sure." So then more studies come out, and now one supports B, but everyone follows it up with, "But we really need more studies to be sure."
Contrary to what people seem to think, we actually have an excellent understanding of electromagnetic radiation and its effects on biological tissue. This knowledge is the foundation of things such as the microwave oven and X-ray and MRI imaging. Now, I'm all for questioning what we think we know, in the name of science, but at some point you have to wonder if all of these studies are fueled by ignorant fear and not out of a desire for good science.
So the people who use their cellphones all the time will be unable, or at least less likely, to reproduce?
:)
Huzzah!
Natural selection is alive and well, it seems
I've got a RAZR in mine! Oh, wait...
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
What's the chance of having an unusually high percentage of males at a fertility clinic with poor sperm quality? Couldn't have seen that one coming. (Sorry, I didn't really mean it like that...)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Nevermind I'll let you talk to him yourself....
Maybe it's not such a good idea after all.
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