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Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles?
Velcroman1 writes "Whoever invented the 'laptop' probably didn't worry too much about male reproductive health. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that sitting with a computer on your lap will crank up the temperature of your nether regions, which could affect sperm quality. And there is little you can do about it, according to the authors of a study out today in the journal Fertility and Sterility, short of putting your laptop on a desk. The researchers hooked thermometers to the scrotums of 29 young men (!) who were balancing a laptop on their knees. They found that even with a lap pad under the computer, the men's scrotums overheated quickly. 'Millions and millions of men are using laptops now, especially those in the reproductive age range,' said Dr. Yefim Sheynkin, a urologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who led the new study."
So how many young men who haven't settled down yet are looking at this more as an opportunity than a problem? :)
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or you can get an ipad
Wait till the Catholic church hears about that. :P
This is good news - we don't need any more people on the planet anyways.
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If only there were a way to get rid of those damaged cells and create new ones.
Or maybe we can evolve some way to correct that ridiculous stopgap measure that we have due to sperm's inability to withstand normal body temperatures.
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"You don't understand," said the man at the return counter. "I said I wanted a computer with a compact DISK burner."
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire."
Last I heard women on webcam can't get pregnant over the internet.
Is why the test subjects let anyone "hook" a thermometer to their nuts?
Unless she was a big blonde with good hands......
You'd have to have balls to participate in that experiment.
Mankind evolved naked, so presumably wearing trousers also has an insulating effect on the scrotum and therefore increases testicle temperatures. How come we never hear about the "male health" dangers of getting dressed?
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
good news i say, being a mac owner i couldnt afford to raise a child!
I'd run a paternity test if I were you as I don't think you were the one that put one in the oven.