Is your laptop cooking your testicles?

[Celebration]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A457320101108

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.

[Cant trust em]

1. I just need to have a couple of kids, then I'll put my laptop wherever I want. nt

[sfwriter]

2. Yes. With porn and onions. EOM

[cliffordu]

5. A little Cilantro.....MMMMMMM good cookin!!

[virgogal]

3. Good lord !!!Now you be careful guys you hear?

[Submariner]

4. *crickets*

I guess all the guys are in the bathroom checking their testicle temperature, or like me, grimacing at the thought of it all.

The MODS need to consider BANNING all future posts that infer in any way, shape or form, to "pain to the testicles". Just stop it!

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. My Apple stays cool therefore my Nuts don't cook. n/t

[ellenfl]

7. no. i don't have testicles. eom

[FLyellowdog]

10. Me neither and don't want any. nt

[Orrex]

13. Pfft. You totally don't know what you're missing.

[FLyellowdog]

14. Hey, it's been so long I probably wouldn't recognize them if I saw them.

:blush:

[SheilaT]

8. Not a problem here,

she said.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. How many people actually keep the laptop in their lap?

[petronius]

12. I do - much more often than not. How else to DU from a recumbent position?

:shrug:

[Liberal Veteran]

11. Call them "Silicon Valley Oysters"

:rofl:

[Odin2005]

15. Given our planet's overpopulation I don't see why this is a problem.