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."

Comments

Re:time to start using my macbook on my lap then

[cupantae]

Cue Apple fans saying how it doesn't apply to Macbooks...

Re:One man's problem...

[tompaulco]

So who do you think is going to look after you when you're eighty?
I will do my best to take care of myself, however, it won't be easy since the government is trying to take care of me. They want to take X amount out of my paycheck and then 30 years from now when it is worth 5X, they will give me back 1/2X to pay for my medical bills.
This all resulted from people not saving enough money to take care of themselves and socialists decided that the government needs to save for us. When the government saves for us, it underperforms inflation, let alone the stock market.