“Teenagers and young men should keep their laptops off their laps because they could damage fertility, an expert says. Laptops, which reach high internal operating temperatures, can heat up the scrotum which could affect the quality and quantity of men’s sperm. ‘The increase in scrotal temperature is significant enough to cause changes in sperm parameters,’ said Dr Yefim Sheynkin, an associate professor of urology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, on Thursday… Adolescents and young men who use laptops several times a day over many years face the greatest risk. Sheynkin fears that if laptop use is not curtailed, in 15-20 years when they want to start a family the men could face problems.” —Reuters (US)

It’s amazing the way that technology has influenced sexuality in the last decade or so. Net porn, cybersex, electronic dating, virtual girlfriends, etc., etc. — information technology has profoundly altered the way that people relate sexually. And in a way it shouldn’t come as any surprise, since sex is really just another form of information exchange. Think about it. Semen is to DNA what email is to a message. (Would that make rape a physical form of spam?)

And if technology is transforming sex, just look at what it’s doing to reproduction too. There is cloning, obviously, and there are all sorts of other reproductive technologies as well: test-tube babies, in vitro fertilization, etc., etc. Frying sperm with a laptop, however, is not normally included under the rubric “reproductive technology” — perhaps because it’s not a goal but rather an unintended side effect. Still, you can’t help but be struck by the irony that some researchers are trying to develop a male contraceptive pill and yet other researchers are warning about the dangers of laptops frying your scrotum. Why don’t these two groups get together? Or you can imagine some men — ones who fear having kids or ones who already have enough kids — taking matters into their own hands and deliberately cooking up their sperm with a laptop. And if that doesn’t work, maybe you’ll see them in the bathroom every morning heating up their nuts with a hair dryer. Who knows? These home remedies are cheaper and sometimes more effective than a pill.

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