Attention all men: using a laptop may heat your testicles and cause infertility!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Thousands of men across the country will be crossing their legs and groaning in despair today when they learn that their trusted friend, the laptop computer, has become the latest threat to their manhood.
Just months after they were warned that carrying mobile phones in their pockets might damage their sperm count, men now have to absorb the news that laptops can similarly threaten their fertility.

Under the title "Increase in scrotal temperature in laptop computer users", researchers today reveal in the journal Human Reproduction that a combination of the heat generated by the computers and the position of the thighs needed to balance the machines leads to higher temperatures around men's genitals.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1369622,00.html

[M|x]

I just read.. *sob*

Got to get a wooden plate or something to keep in my lap when I use my laptop.

[az]

What I find really interesting is that temps were measured for the left and right testicle separately. Maybe if laptop makers would put the processor etc. in the left side of the laptop, the right testicle's temperature would be at more harmless levels...

Anyway, what's the problem? Use your laptop, no need for condoms - then, when you decide you want to have kids, just stop using your mobile computer and phone for a month (a nice holiday with the wife would be ideal for this)

AZ

[Fat Tone]

To think I could have saved the pain of the operation!

[William]

Another advantage of my tablet PC; all the electronics is behind the screen, so the keyboard part never gets very hot when it's resting on my lap

[ZokesPro]

Hmm, a testicle warmer for the winter, sweet!

Always wanted one! ( a laptop I mean :P )

[ALBPM]

Testicles = heatsinks........ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then there's that heatpipe thingy directing the heat right down to them..........

Better stop before Lizzy gives me the Boot....ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KvHagedorn]

Hey girls.. one of the few men who own neither a laptop nor a cellphone here!

[LvR]

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