October 23, 2006

Cell Phone Usage Linked to Sucky Fertility

Booty calls are making your penis unhappy:

A new study shows a worrying link between poor sperm and the number of hours a day that a man uses his mobile phone.

The findings suggest millions of men may encounter difficulties in fathering a child due to the widespread use of mobile phones and offers another possible explanation for plummeting fertility levels among British males.

Men who used a mobile for more than four hours a day had a 25 per cent lower sperm count than men who never used a mobile.

The men with highest usage also had greater problems with sperm quality, with the swimming ability of sperm - a crucial factor in conception - down by a third.

They had a 50 per cent drop in the number of properly formed sperm, with just one-fifth looking normal under a microscope.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

you'd think it would be having the phone in the pocket causing this, not phone "usage"?