Laptops...give males problems?

I hear that. I just got off a flight last night with a kid on board that should be the poster child for a condom commercial.

 

Haha that reminds me of when I worked at the TN Aquarium gift shop. A younger guy (mid to late 20's I guess) had his wife and 3 kids. All the kids were jumping up and down "Daddy can I have this can I have that what's this due why are we looking at fish blah blah blah?" The guy just looks up at me and says "Dude...use condoms..." I snorted laughing into my register. Thankfully it was the weekend so the boss wasn't there ;D

 

OK I searched around on the Mythbuster's forum and there were actually 5 or 6 topics of this started over the years. I looked through all of them.

The almost unanimous conclusion on ALL of those threads was this:

Laptop heat, like any heat, can and will lower your sperm count. Taking a hot bath can lower your sperm count. Your own body heat can lower it, hence the reason why they aren't surrounded by bones and tissue.

It will lower your count temporarily, but we have constant replacements on the way. So if you kill off a chunk typing a novel or watching Youtube videos, your count will be back to normal within days to about a week (their average lifespan is only about a week anyways)

One man presented proof as a reply to the question, his reply was "It never stopped me from having an 8lb 8oz baby boy :"

Another reply was "If you are sitting with a computer in your lap long enough to make you infertile playing your World of Warcraft, you don't deserve to be fertile anyways because you're pobably not going to use it if you had it."



So mom, don't tell my grandma, but I might have the laptop in my lap occassionally. At 19 years old, my count doesn't seem very important at the moment.

 

Listen to your mom. She's almost 100% on the money. In a past life I was a tech support guy. It was popular on the phones to stress that a 'laptop' is a misnomer. The device is NOT intended to be used on a lap because it could burn you; and there are often vents on the bottom that require a source of fresh air--such vents are blocked during such use.

That said; in a previous past life, biology was a keen interest. The male organs responsible for reproduction are located outside the body for a reason. For optimum function they require an ambient temp slightly lower than 98.6. Many an endocrinologist will tell you that biking shorts are deadly in this respect. Hanging closely behind the endocrinologist will be a family planning M.D. shaking his or her head in horror and agreement.

Sit habitually with a device that regularly achieves temperatures above 100F, and you have a pretty good situation to insure you are the last of your lineage. Keep it up as the pendulum swings and you may make a temporary shortcoming a permanent downfall.

Halo at your own peril, young man!!

 

Listen to Sparky - after all, he is a moderator!

 

Haha there's no way I can play halo on computer in my lap I gotta have a desk. In capture the flag, the closer I get to the flag, the closer I get to the screen. I'm not flexible enough to do that in my lap. 9 times out of 10 I use my comp on a desk or table. Any time it has ever been in my lap, it has never been there for longer than 20-30 minutes. Also, the primary cooling vents for this comp are on the sides around the far right corner. There are some on the bottom, but the fans push most of it out of the right. I can feel it in class or when I'm using a mouse

I'm not too worried about my specific laptop. It seems pretty "lap" friendly because it's intended as a tablet PC as well. Flip the screen down and write. Other, larger notebooks could definitely be a problem though.

I still highly doubt you would ever ever ever be infertile from heat. Even if excessive heat killed off everything, more would be growing the whole time, and you'd reach you full supply in a few days time.

It's like giving blood. The average male has about 5L or 8-9ish pints. I saw a formula somewhere that said 78?mL/kilo body weigt. I weigh about 65 kilos, so I have about 5070mL in me. About 5L. I've given blood 5 times so far, one was a double red, meaning I gave two units of blood cells, so 6 total units. The unit is 500mL I believe now...so I've given about 3 liters...but that doesn't mean I have only 2 of my 5 liters left in me. I still have my 5, because my bones grow it allll back later.

I used that as an example because it represents my view of my family jewels and heat. If any die, more will replace them shortly. I don't exactly plan on having kids at the moment, so I don't really care if it takes them a year to grow back. I'm sure a dip in a hot tub kills off about the same as a laptop would.

Just my POV

 

I don't think the heat will hurt you. The only thing it might do is heat up your laptop. I like to use a fan underneath my laptop to keep it cool.

 

And people wonder why I live 120 miles away from my mother

 

Very well said.. thank you

 

No one is doubting whether sperm production will be hindered by the heat. It is the permanent infertility we are skeptical about.

According to the article dufresne posted using a laptop on your lap increased testicular temperature by 3 degrees Celsius... If I walked outside right now at 11:30 am my testicles would heat up 3 degrees.

Maybe if you lived in the Nevada it may not be a good idea to sit outside with a laptop on your lap in the middle of summer.

They said the same thing about tight jeans in the 70s...

If biking shorts are so "deadly" how does Lance Armstrong have four kids?