Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles? 293
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."
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:do people really do that? (Score:3, Insightful)
Someone doesn't have a recliner :)
Read the article, FFS (Score:5, Insightful)
Somehow, I'm thinking that the future of the human race is not imperiled by laptops making men infertile. At least, not in that way.
Re:One man's problem... (Score:4, Insightful)
And how many young men (and women) are going to be very disappointed when they discover that it's an astonishingly ineffective method of birth control?
Re:clothes, too? (Score:4, Insightful)
Scotsmen have a solution that should also help with the laptop-caused problem.
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Insightful)
Overpopulation! Are you one of them?
Re:One man's problem... (Score:5, Insightful)
Does that include people dumb enough to rely on a "laptop" computer for birth control?
Re:One man's problem... (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm a young guy who's settled down, and I still see it as an awesome thing. We don't want kids, and my parents don't want grandkids. Her parents already have grandkids because of her sister, so no pressure from that side either.
So who do you think is going to look after you when you're eighty? The fucking tooth fairy?
Oh no, it will be other people's kids and grandkids, aren't you lucky that you won't have to do any of the hard work but still get the same benefit?
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Insightful)
The true class warfare involves the narcissistic socialists against the "poor and dumb".
As opposed to the fake class warfare of libertarian free-market wage enslavement?
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Insightful)
Meanwhile, population is increasing out of all control in those areas least able to support it, driven by the fastest pricks and spread legs, each successive generation dumber than the last.
Re:One man's problem... (Score:4, Insightful)
My wife and I would look after each other until we no longer could, at which point we would put ourselves in a home.
How would having kids just so they could take care of us be any better? That seems like a real dick move.
Who is going to staff this "home"? Other 80 and 90 year olds? Or other people's kids and grandkids?
The grandparent post overstated the case, because of course there's no need for everyone to have their own kids to look after them when they're old. But we still need young people to follow us. So it's perfectly fine for lots of people to choose to be "evolutionary dead ends", as long as not everyon makes that choice. :-)
Re:One man's problem... (Score:5, Insightful)
I highly, highly recommend that you both buy long-term care insurance. If that's your late-retirement plan, be prepared for it.
My wife's grandparents worked hard their whole lives and saved nearly everything, but after he died and his pensions + social security cut off, her $4600 a month nursing home bill has been draining their savings at an alarming rate.
You do not want to rely on Medicare for this. You'll be stuck in a sub-par home because choices for Medicare beds are limited.