Laptops A Male Fertility Risk?

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(WebMD) Male fertility may be affected by perching laptop computers on the lap, according to a new study.

Balancing laptop computers on the lap raises the scrotum's temperature, say researchers including Yefim Sheynkin, MD, FACS, of the urology department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

About 15-20 percent of couples that want to get pregnant aren't able to conceive. Many of those cases trace back to issues relating to the male. Gradually declining sperm production has been noted in recent decades, say the researchers.

Elevated scrotal temperatures have been linked to male infertility. Many factors can raise scrotal temperature, including hot baths, saunas, and tight jockey shorts.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/09/health/webmd/main660100.shtml

Twenty years ago, a colleague of mine was having difficulty becoming pregnant. I told her to throw out her husband's jockey shorts, and replace them with boxer shorts. I also advised her to tell her husband to wear his pants looser. She did, and a couple of months later, became pregnant.

Now it looks like technology is working against reproduction. Does that mean that the next generation will have a dearth of people who are technologically oriented? After all, if the techies don't pass on their genetic material..................................

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in the future, laptops will come equipped with a cooling agent built into the base of the keyboard, and (for a limited time only) free boxer shorts...

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Reproductive experts warn in a new study that heat generated by laptop computers can have an adverse effect on male fertility.

The study, reported today in the journal Human Reproduction, showed that testicular temperatures rose by between 4.6 and 5 degrees Fahrenheit in an hour among a group of healthy male volunteers...

Previous studies have shown that increases in testicular temperatures between 1.8 and 5.2 degrees have a sustained negative effect on sperm development and fertility.

I'm actually surprised anybody can still even use a laptop as a laptop.

My old Compaq Armada gave off so much heat that in winter it doubled as my office space heater. (Seriously.) I would no sooner rest that thing on my thighs than have relations with a waffle iron.

Curious, I clicked over to the Human Reproduction website for the first time (although admittedly, I've seen a few other human reproduction websites now and again; this was just the first time I'd been to the Human Reproduction website.)

There I found an endless supply of articles on "single nucleotide polymorphisms" and "anti-Mullerian hormone plasma levels" and "GnRH agonist stimulation of the pituitary-gonadal axis."

And I didn't even know I had a pituitary-gonadal axis. Much less that it can be stimulated.

Oh baby I am so hot right now.

I better go surf some porn.

Either that, or open a window.

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Is that a computer on your lap, or are you just happy to shoot blanks? Smile

....Well, me HP pavilion zx5000 series laptop never gets too hot, & it even has 2 fans that blow out from the bottom of the machine to help keep the base cool.

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