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Cell Phone Use May Be Bad For Your Sperm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hang-up-and-propogate dept.

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?"

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  1. Got it where it counts by Hillgiant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, what I lack in quality, I make up for in quantity.

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    1. Re:Got it where it counts by Chemisor · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am sure you already have an impressive amount, after decades of savings and all...

  2. Easily solved by Robotech_Master · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll just not let my sperm use the phone.

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    1. Re:Easily solved by Pharmboy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hell, I was thinking that storing my cell phone in my underwear was a lot cheaper than condoms or birth control pills.

      Keeps the boys warm, too.

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  3. Like it matters... by aitikin · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'd need girlfriends/wives before it really mattered!

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  4. Just speculating by plover · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Just speculating by plover · · Score: 3, Interesting
      My point was this "study" was so incomplete as to be laughable. It was a questionaire, with people self-reporting phone habits. It could be anything from raised arms (which was a joke, virtually everyone who is on the phone 4+ hours per day has a handsfree setup) or that men who use the phone 4+ hours per day are statistically more likely to be 50-year-old travelling salesmen who have had vasectomies.

      This story should have been placed in the category of "It's pathetic, laugh."

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    2. Re:Just speculating by MBCook · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The data also comes from a fertility clinic. They took a group of patients and asked them about their cell phone use. What are the chances that there is a correlation between the people showing up having good jobs? I'm guessing if you can afford to go to a fertility clinic, you're probably not poor. If you're not poor, you have job responsibilities. If you have job responsibilities, you may have a phone for it. And if the phone gives you stress.. then the phone is indirectly causing your problem.

      Is it something that correlates like that? Is it keeping your cellphone in your pocket? Is it just the fact that EVERYONE is using phones more and more theses days (and counts are dropping)?

      While interesting, this study is nothing but a "Isn't this weird? We should test this more."

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  5. There's a correlation alright. by Who235 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:There's a correlation alright. by Verteiron · · Score: 2, Funny

      You bastard, I just blew an unhealthy quantity of Coke right out my nose.

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    2. Re:There's a correlation alright. by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny
      You bastard, I just blew an unhealthy quantity of Coke right out my nose.

      What exactly is the U.S. RDA for expelling coca-cola through your nasal passages?

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  6. Of course... by Junta · · Score: 4, Funny

    A lack of quality sperm causes high cell phone usage!

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  7. Birth Control by spoonboy42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who needs a condom, I've always got my T610 in my jeans' pocket.

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  8. The real danger... by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  9. the most important thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    it still tastes the same

  10. For the better by bdigit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps some of those people who are on their cellphone 8 hours a day should not be reproducing anyway

  11. Ow! My sperm! by McGregorMortis · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

  12. The direct link by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  13. Damnit! by Karganeth · · Score: 2, Funny

    I knew I shouldn't have let my sperm use cellphones... :(

  14. "Cell Phone Use May Be Bad For Your Sperm" by Anti_Climax · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's fine, I wasn't using it anyway.

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  15. A dose of coke through the nose by tepples · · Score: 3, Funny
    What exactly is the U.S. RDA for expelling coca-cola through your nasal passages?

    I don't know about Coke out, but a dose of coke in is about 50 mg.