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."
One man's problem... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You get what you pay for (Score:2, Funny)
Laptops = contraception? (Score:5, Funny)
Wait till the Catholic church hears about that. :P
Free birth control (Score:5, Funny)
This is good news - we don't need any more people on the planet anyways.
No solution (Score:4, Funny)
If only there were a way to get rid of those damaged cells and create new ones.
Or maybe we can evolve some way to correct that ridiculous stopgap measure that we have due to sperm's inability to withstand normal body temperatures.
Lost in translation (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."
Close enough to Christmas... (Score:2, Funny)
Is this really an issue? (Score:5, Funny)
Last I heard women on webcam can't get pregnant over the internet.
What I don't understand (Score:1, Funny)
Is why the test subjects let anyone "hook" a thermometer to their nuts?
Unless she was a big blonde with good hands......
Re:Laptops = contraception? (Score:3, Funny)
At last I see the true purpose behind the one laptop per child initiative sending all of it's product to third world countries. If they won't listen to reason and practice some restraint and birth control, we'll just sneak it up on them! Unfortunately, someone just went and spilled the beans, so the Church will know that they need to add Laptop Computers to the list of things they claim cause aids when making speeches in Africa.
Wow (Score:3, Funny)
You'd have to have balls to participate in that experiment.
Re:One man's problem... (Score:2, Funny)
Forget haven't settled down. I have four kids; they're fun but that's plenty for me.
(Written in the maternity ward as they're inducing my wife)
clothes, too? (Score:2, Funny)
time to start using my macbook on my lap then (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Real men heat their nuts and dont care.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:One man's problem... (Score:5, 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!
Re:One man's problem... (Score:5, Funny)
you took a wrong turn... /b/ is that way ------>
Re:One man's problem... (Score:5, Funny)
You have a dom female rabbit, and a sub male rabbit with a face-sitting fetish? ... That's amazing.
Re:Close enough to Christmas... (Score:4, Funny)
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire."
"Jack Frost nipping at your knob."
Anyone creative enough to continue . . . ?
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Funny)
2) Breed like rabbits, and successfully brainwash most of your children.
3) Democracy.
Re:Is this really an issue? (Score:5, Funny)
Also, his testicles have been known to cook laptops. True story.
Re:Close enough to Christmas... (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!"
Re:One man's problem... (Score:5, Funny)
Adobe Flash is my contraceptive.
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Funny)
I wouldn't call it a fetish but they surely are a special couple!
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One man's problem... (Score:3, Funny)
I have never seen a more appropriate nickname + thread combination than yours. I am in awe.