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Laptops, combined with the thighs pressed-together posture needed to balance them, give off enough heat to raise the temperature inside testicles by nearly three degrees celsius.

 

 

Laptop in your lap might mess with male prowess

 

 

TORONTO -- New medical research is about to hit the technology industry below the belt; a provocative U.S. study has concluded that the last place any male should use a laptop computer is in his lap. Research published yesterday in the journal Human Reproduction has found that laptops, combined with the thighs pressed-together posture needed to balance them, give off enough heat to raise the temperature inside testicles by nearly three degrees celsius.

 

This increase, researchers warn, could endanger the production of healthy sperm and lead to infertility.

 

"Some people don't use laptops on their laps, but a lot of young men, or boys, have all these wireless services and they do use them on their laps to play games or do all sorts of things . . . and this is a continuous heat exposure. . . . But in 10 or 20 years, when they try to have a family, they might have problems," said study leader Yefim Sheynkin, a urologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

 

So where should men put a laptop?

 

"Use it on a desk," he said. "Anywhere but on the lap."

 

If the findings sound, well, nuts, no doctor is likely to dismiss them.

 

The health of sperm globally has been a subject of great concern for the past 12 years.

 

Reports, particularly from Western countries, suggest that sperm counts and quality have been declining for half a century, while testicular cancer rates are rising.

 

The phenomenon remains controversial, but no one disputes that semen has its environmental enemies -- and heat is one of them.

 

Heat is known to mangle the traditional tadpole shape of sperm, as well as limit their numbers, stunt their growth and make them sluggish.

 

Doctors strongly advise men having trouble in becoming fathers to abstain from hot baths, hot tubs and sometimes saunas.

 

Even serious scientists have compared the cooling benefits of boxer underwear over briefs.