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03-25-2005, 07:05 PM
Official: rise in scrotal warming can lead to climax change
By Julie Robotham, Medical Editor
March 26 2005
Throw away the jocks, boys, it's official: wearing tight underpants can send scrotal temperatures soaring, by almost one full degree Celsius, with potentially disastrous effects on fertility.
However, men who already prefer to dangle in the breeze can't breathe a sigh of relief just yet: if you sit still for long periods, the extra heat you retain is nearly three times the equivalent of wearing supportive briefs. If you do both, you may be practically cooking.
In the first rigorously controlled experiment into the topic, German scientists distributed 100 pairs of Wal-Mart undies (the Basic brand for the jockeys and Mangoon for the shorts) to 50 healthy men aged between 18 and 45.
They then supervised an afternoon of carefully controlled activity in which the men spent an hour and a half in each style of nether-wear, topped by normal clothing. During each undie rotation, the volunteers had to walk for 45 minutes on a treadmill and then spend the same amount of time sitting immobile, with their legs bound to prevent cheating.
Every subtle temperature fluctuation was picked up by a pair of heat sensors taped to each side of the scrotum and attached to a portable data recorder.
"For all types of genital clothing, during walking scrotal temperatures were 1.5 to 2.2 degrees [Celsius] lower than during sitting," the lead researcher, Andreas Jung, said. The difference was smallest when the men were wearing jockeys, because less restrictive garments, or none at all, seemed to dissipate heat more readily.
The team could offer no explanation for a more puzzling finding: the left side of the scrotum was consistently warmer than the right. "A verification in future studies is necessary," Dr Jung said.
A Melbourne-based fertility, expert, David de Kretser, said: "It is well recognised that heat is deleterious to sperm production. That is why the testicles are where they are."
For normally fertile men, hotter genitals would have little effect on fertility, Professor de Kretser said.
However, "at the borderline, or where the sperm count is frankly low, this starts to become important. Simple methods like this can make a difference," he said.
Well, someones looking out to save our balls.
And they said the doomsayers were nuts.
We were all warned.
(and thats possibly the best headline I've ever read.)
By Julie Robotham, Medical Editor
March 26 2005
Throw away the jocks, boys, it's official: wearing tight underpants can send scrotal temperatures soaring, by almost one full degree Celsius, with potentially disastrous effects on fertility.
However, men who already prefer to dangle in the breeze can't breathe a sigh of relief just yet: if you sit still for long periods, the extra heat you retain is nearly three times the equivalent of wearing supportive briefs. If you do both, you may be practically cooking.
In the first rigorously controlled experiment into the topic, German scientists distributed 100 pairs of Wal-Mart undies (the Basic brand for the jockeys and Mangoon for the shorts) to 50 healthy men aged between 18 and 45.
They then supervised an afternoon of carefully controlled activity in which the men spent an hour and a half in each style of nether-wear, topped by normal clothing. During each undie rotation, the volunteers had to walk for 45 minutes on a treadmill and then spend the same amount of time sitting immobile, with their legs bound to prevent cheating.
Every subtle temperature fluctuation was picked up by a pair of heat sensors taped to each side of the scrotum and attached to a portable data recorder.
"For all types of genital clothing, during walking scrotal temperatures were 1.5 to 2.2 degrees [Celsius] lower than during sitting," the lead researcher, Andreas Jung, said. The difference was smallest when the men were wearing jockeys, because less restrictive garments, or none at all, seemed to dissipate heat more readily.
The team could offer no explanation for a more puzzling finding: the left side of the scrotum was consistently warmer than the right. "A verification in future studies is necessary," Dr Jung said.
A Melbourne-based fertility, expert, David de Kretser, said: "It is well recognised that heat is deleterious to sperm production. That is why the testicles are where they are."
For normally fertile men, hotter genitals would have little effect on fertility, Professor de Kretser said.
However, "at the borderline, or where the sperm count is frankly low, this starts to become important. Simple methods like this can make a difference," he said.
Well, someones looking out to save our balls.
And they said the doomsayers were nuts.
We were all warned.
(and thats possibly the best headline I've ever read.)