Gentlemen, Start Your Laptops!

   Yefim Sheynkin , director of the Male Infertility and Microsurgery Center at the State University of New York at Stoney Brook, is telling men that his advice is "... not (to) use a laptop in the laptop position." It seems that as little as twenty minutes of laptop use on a lap can raise scrotal temperatures by nearly two degrees Fahrenheit, and any temperature raise over two degrees is enough to reduce sperm count markedly. After an hour, the temperature rise can be as much as six degrees. The good doctor feels, after his studies on the question, that there is a possibility that continued laptop use can cause permanent damage, and so he advises "a need for caution." So guys, if you're thinking of fatherhood somewhere down the line, rethink where you put that handy-dandy laptop.