Saturday, November 06, 2010

Devastating News: Your Laptop May Be Cooking Your Testicles

Doctor's orders: Boxer shorts and a desktop PC.
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.
Hooked thermometers to their scrotums?!

Oh dear.

Via Hot Air headlines. Cross-posted here.

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