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Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sterility-seems-like-value-add dept.

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."

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  1. One man's problem... by Daetrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:One man's problem... by tsa · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yea man, I think it's great! I can fuck like my rabbits now without having an operation like my rabbits had. Oh, but my rabbits are actually a bad example because I only see my female rabbit hump the male every once in a while. On the head. And he likes it. She's bigger than him but he can lift her up with his head no problem if he wants to. I would like to meet a woman who can do that to me!

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    2. Re:One man's problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      you took a wrong turn... /b/ is that way ------>

    3. Re:One man's problem... by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

      You have a dom female rabbit, and a sub male rabbit with a face-sitting fetish? ... That's amazing.

    4. Re:One man's problem... by surgen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Adobe Flash is my contraceptive.

  2. Laptops = contraception? by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait till the Catholic church hears about that. :P

  3. Free birth control by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is good news - we don't need any more people on the planet anyways.

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  4. Lost in translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You don't understand," said the man at the return counter. "I said I wanted a computer with a compact DISK burner."

  5. Is this really an issue? by cgfsd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last I heard women on webcam can't get pregnant over the internet.

    1. Re:Is this really an issue? by need4mospd · · Score: 5, Funny
      Chuck Norris can get women pregnant over a webcam.

      Also, his testicles have been known to cook laptops. True story.

  6. Re:Close enough to Christmas... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire."

    "Jack Frost nipping at your knob."

    Anyone creative enough to continue . . . ?

    "Tiny hipsters with their balls all a'glow, will find it hard to breed tonight!"