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Old but interesting article about laptops and your balls.

post #1 of 24
10/13/05 at 6:29am
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US fertility experts are warning teenage boys and young men to consider limiting the time that they use notebook computers positioned on their laps, as long-term use may affect their fertility.

The increasing popularity of notebook computers (NC), coupled with existing evidence that elevated scrotal temperature can result in sperm damage, prompted researchers from the State University of New York at Stony Brook to undertake the first study into the effect of heat from NC on scrotal temperature.

The findings are reported in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction. They show that using an NC on the lap increased the left scrotal temperature by a median 2.6?C and the right by a median 2.8?C. Several previous studies have shown that increases in testicular or scrotal temperatures of between 1?C and 2.9?C are associated with a sustained and considerable negative effect on spermatogenesis and fertility.
Continued at http://www.news-medical.net/?id=6832

M.
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post #2 of 24
10/13/05 at 7:08am
hmm.. i only wonder how anywon (besides children maybe) could put the laptop so close to thier testicles and still be able to type and watch the screen comfortably.. my notebook does get considerably hot once in a while, however, i cannot feel this from 10 cm distance. i would rather be worried about the electro-smog produced by so many transistors and circuits. anyone ever studied those effects on the human reproduction organs?
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post #3 of 24
10/13/05 at 7:16am
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I don't think it'd be easy to spot a 2 degree difference so easily.

On another note, the article is from Dec. 2004 and mostly about notebooks of that time. PM is not mentioned.

Still, I don't put my computer there either way. I haven't got a reason or a desire to, as it's a) bad, as the article states, and I figured this before and b) uncomfortable as all hell.

M.
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post #4 of 24
10/13/05 at 9:03am
If my lappy was getting hot enough to cook the twins It wouldn't be there.
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post #5 of 24
10/13/05 at 10:56am
Didn't we have a story about this posted here several months ago?
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post #6 of 24
10/13/05 at 11:37am
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I did say it was old, right in the title. It's the first word.

I don't know why you even asked that question.

M.
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post #7 of 24
10/13/05 at 11:43am
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Originally Posted by thelostpatrol
I did say it was old, right in the title. It's the first word.

I don't know why you even asked that question.

M.
Probably because Quick Search could have found this: http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...hlight=scrotum, among other posts.
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post #8 of 24
10/13/05 at 11:47am
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Whoop dee doo.

M.
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post #9 of 24
10/13/05 at 6:35pm
It doesn't take much heat to kill the sperm produced. A couple degrees is more than enough. Tight jeans have done a lot to lower the reproduction rate of the US, just because it keeps them closer to the body, and the body's heat. They need to be a couple degrees colder than body temp. Why the body didn't just evolve (or why God didn't create us) so that they "work" at body temp makes no sense to me.
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post #10 of 24
10/13/05 at 6:56pm
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Originally Posted by Unicorn01
It doesn't take much heat to kill the sperm produced. A couple degrees is more than enough. Tight jeans have done a lot to lower the reproduction rate of the US, just because it keeps them closer to the body, and the body's heat. They need to be a couple degrees colder than body temp. Why the body didn't just evolve (or why God didn't create us) so that they "work" at body temp makes no sense to me.
OMG, teh lord made a mistake!

M.
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post #11 of 24
10/13/05 at 7:15pm
Well, my computer has vents on the bottom, so I can't use it directly on my lap anyway...I just set it on my lap with my Chill Mat....Plus, at this point in my life, infertility doesn't sound so bad...

Oh yeah, and I think the narrow operating temp of sperm is actually beneficial, since it narrows the chances of reproducing. Nature/God seems to have produced very effective ways of keeping reproduction to a happy minimum, both in women and in men....crazy how it works.
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post #12 of 24
10/13/05 at 8:09pm
"There is no way I am the father of that baby! I use a laptop constantly!"
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post #13 of 24
10/13/05 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by JUST_BLAZE
"There is no way I am the father of that baby! I use a laptop constantly!"
I think we may have rediscovered another great way to avoid pregnancy.

Just play a lot of HL2 right before you do your thang with the ladies.



M.
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post #14 of 24
10/13/05 at 8:18pm
Don't stay in hot tubs for very long either, guys.

This is further proof that women are better engineered than men
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post #15 of 24
10/13/05 at 8:30pm
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Originally Posted by thelostpatrol
I think we may have rediscovered another great way to avoid pregnancy.

Just play a lot of HL2 right before you do your thang with the ladies.



M.
"I don't need no condom baby, I just had a CS bender!"


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Originally Posted by nyako
Don't stay in hot tubs for very long either, guys.

This is further proof that women are better engineered than men

Until said woman is punched in the ovaries
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post #16 of 24
10/13/05 at 8:31pm
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Originally Posted by JUST_BLAZE
Until said woman is punched in the ovaries
Do we need to take this outside?
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post #17 of 24
10/13/05 at 8:34pm
Between what you just said and that smilie, that sounds more like an offer than a challenge....
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post #18 of 24
10/13/05 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by JUST_BLAZE
Between what you just said and that smilie, that sounds more like an offer than a challenge....
I seriously need to stop using that smilie.

You people and your sick minds.
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post #19 of 24
10/14/05 at 5:45am
isn't it all simply evolutions masterplan to get rid of the faultiy notbook-nerd-genes in this world?
i mean seriously - an understandable move.. isn't it??? huh?
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post #20 of 24
10/14/05 at 5:55am
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Originally Posted by gernot
isn't it all simply evolutions masterplan to get rid of the faultiy notbook-nerd-genes in this world?
i mean seriously - an understandable move.. isn't it??? huh?



Blasphemy.
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