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Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility

Posted by timothy on from the does-not-bode-well-for-me dept.

Pierre Bezukhov submits news of a report that "a laptop connected wirelessly to the internet on the lap near the testes may result in decreased male fertility," writing "'[The scientists who conducted the research] placed healthy sperms under a laptop running a Wi-Fi connection. After four hours, the Wi-Fi exposed sperms showed 'a significant decrease in progressive sperm motility and an increase in sperm DNA fragmentation' compared to healthy sperms stored for the same time in the same temperature away from the computer. That is, the sperms exposed to Wi-Fi were less capable of moving towards an egg to fertilize it and less capable of passing on the male's DNA if it does fertilize an egg.' The scientists blamed the damage on non-thermal electromagnetic radiation generated by the Wi-Fi." However, the experiment was based on sperm outside the body; the researchers (here's the abstract from their study) note that "Further in vitro and in vivo studies are needed to prove this contention."

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  1. Insufficient data. by sgt+scrub · · Score: 5, Funny

    They don't say what the compute was displaying. Porn has been known to effect the movement of sperms.

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  2. This calls for... by Shirogitsune · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a tinfoil codpiece!

  3. Awesome by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 1, Funny

    Awesome I'm going to connect my jewels to the web!

    Maybe then my wife won't keep pestering me to get snipped.

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    1. Re:Awesome by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe then my wife won't keep pestering me to get snipped.

      Go ahead and do it. It's been five years for me and it's great. Everything still works.

      Of course, don't even consider it unless you already have children and you are in a long-term committed and successful relationship.

      Nowadays, they do it with laser beams and you don't have have sore nuts for a week or anything. My doctor gave me a tootsie pop (seriously) after he was done and it was great! I'd go do it again, but it would be kind of redundant, I think. Man, I loved that tootsie pop. It was the grape, which is my favorite.

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  4. Hmm by lightknight · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most things placed near testes tend to decrease male fertility.

    Briefs, jeans, angry women...

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  5. Re:Evolution by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could bedazzle your balls with aluminum sequins, that will maintain full sack flexibility while guarding your nuts from the wifi waves, and you'll have DISCO BALLS! XD

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