Are you cooking your sperm?
 

Apparently heated seats aren't so cool when you think about what you're resting on them :)

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...dgeABV_HU3fUBw

Hot seat is a gamble for the gonads

PARIS (AFP) ? Men who enjoy warming their bottom on a heated car seat should beware, for they may also be frying their chances of fatherhood, New Scientist reports in its latest issue.

Sperm production is best when the temperature of the scrotum is one or two degrees Celsius (1.8-3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) below the core body temperature of 37 C (99 F).

Testicle-testing German researchers fitted sensors to the scrotums of 30 healthy men who then sat on a heated car seat for 90 minutes.

After one hour, the average scrotal temperature had risen to 37.3 C (99.5 F), and in one volunteer reached a whopping 39.7 C (103 F).

By comparison, men who sat on unheated car seats reached an average scrotal temperature of only 36.7 C (98 F).

The study, led by Andreas Jung at the University of Giessen, did not verify the volunteer's sperm count or sperm mobility, but the researchers fear that only a slight increase in temperature is enough to damage the sperm-production process, the British weekly says.

Previous work in this field has already found that sitting in a car for more than three hours, even on an unheated seat, can impair a man's ability to conceive.

The report appears in next Saturday's issue of New Scientist. The study appears in full in a specialist journal, Fertility and Sterility.

Laptops not good re sperm production either, appartantly...

My laptop sits on my lap for 12 - 14 hours a day.

I am extremely concerned about it.

I have the same fear about my laptop!

wow, great info for the boys Elli. i have read about the laptops causing that issue as well.

My sperm are all locked up behind a surgical alteration.

I keep them in jars in the basement. They are safe :-)

Yeah, I've heard about the laptop issue, too, but this was a new one for me! I figured it was important enough to share :)

why not use a table?

Like the world could handle one of my fucktrophies..

Does this mean I can say "trust me honey I use a seat warmer and a laptop, we do not need any condoms"?

Don't cook my sperm, but occasionally I enjoy lightly grilling the odd turd...

put it on a table and just sit at the table... problem solved...
no more balls cooking

i have to admit, when i read the thread title, i came in here to get a new recipe.

Sorry to disappoint, IP! :)

Heated car seat? Is that a new invention? I never even had one when I lived up North in the 80's & 90s.

They used to be luxury only, but they're trickling into regular family cars and trucks. :)

It's a big sales point on SAABs. They tried to upsell me on it and I asked "Why would I want to reverse a fart?" The dealer was mortified. I did take the car, though. :thumbsup

Birth control...

Elli it just dawned on me.

Why were you on google searching for sperm?

Sounds cheaper than a vasectomy.

Why? Thinking about coming over for dinner?

Ummmm... no reason? I was doing a search for a friend? :uhoh

lol, nice to know.

bet i have none of the fuckers left

I tell her all the time she won't get pregnant if I warm up the sack prior

it doesnt say whether sperm production resumes to normal after cooling

I hate heated seat.. I don't like my ass to be warm

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh thanks for the laugh :thumbsup

This must be why I've not worn underpants since I was 13

i turn the passenger seat on and put my pizza on it for the trip back to the house

Suuuure, now i get this information....5 kids later ;-)

although, I'm actually surgically fixed now ;-)

now all the girls who swallow will want it cooked first.
trouble maker.

I just saw a segment on TV where a couple had a cast made of themselves locked together naked; the guy supplied a "year's worth" of sperm and had it mixed in with the plaster so his "DNA" would be "infused" into the sculpture. UGH. :helpme

I cool my testicles oftenly...

I have hawt balls :) ... makes me feel so proud ... lol

But yeah I have to get me a cooling fan just like the one I have cooling my hard drives....something like this should do it:

http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/u...1/fan_pc_3.jpg

http://www.2dayblog.com/images/scythe_cpu_fan.jpg

http://www.hal-pc.org/journal/2007/0...7FanGrahic.jpg

lol thats a good idea

already fried them while I was cooking and dropped my nut suck where the eggs were supposed to go

be careful :(

OMG a case made of fans! Why didn't I think of that??

Because they're called LAPtops. Always using them on a table sort of defeats the purpose. If you always wanted it on a table, you'd get a DESKtop.

How about a USB butt cooler to offset the potential damage?

http://thsrv.com/hl/http://www.thank.../top_photo.jpg

http://www.thanko.jp/usbseatair/