Slog - Comments on Cell Phone Use Tied to Poorer Semen Quality

Comment by johnnie

johnnie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:14:00 -0800

gross followup commentary.

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty

Fifty-Two-Eighty — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:16:23 -0800

Guess you'll have to conduct that study yourself. Hey, maybe you could get federal funding for it.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:23:22 -0800

semen is so gross i don't even like jerking off.

Comment by iwanttobealion

iwanttobealion — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:24:06 -0800

What exactly is "abnormal sperm"? Are we talking 2-3 tails? More ovary penetrating power...?

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:28:29 -0800

Personally, I find it distracting if they try to talk on a cell phone while they're doing me.

Maybe it's just me, but seriously, I think we should all try to enjoy it - or at least appear to - if we're going down on our partner ...

Comment by vooodooo84

vooodooo84 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:33:18 -0800

Its called birth control, papal approved no less

Comment by doctiloquus

doctiloquus — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:43:35 -0800

"...the more HOURS the men spent on their cell phones each day..."

I don't think I've ever spent hours on the cell phone in any one day, even when producing a film.

Comment by lostboy

lostboy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:47:38 -0800

Correlation does not imply causation.� Maybe the guys spending hours on their cell phone have high-stress careers and are chronically sleep deprived?

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:17:29 -0800

Good point, lostboy. Let's do a scientifically-designed study ...

Comment by Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:22:18 -0800

Should be a headline in the onion:

"Study of confounding factors hampered by confounding factors"

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:01:42 -0800

Does this study apply to text messaging, as well?

Comment by Gomez

Gomez — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:30:57 -0800

I'm willing to bet the type of people who use their cell phones a lot are the same types of people who, you know, are desperately trying to compensate for other... ahem... deficiencies.

Comment by Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:51:53 -0800

This means that the US Navy should immediately BAN all cellphones from serving personnel on all US ships. We cannot afford a drop in the quality of the nations semen! (sic)

Comment by violet_dagrinder

violet_dagrinder — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:55:07 -0800

Ok, FINISH? Ya lost me.

Comment by Aya

Aya — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:25:37 -0800

Damn! Lostboy beat me to it.

If cell phone use makes semen weak, then the world decrease in pirates is making the planet hotter.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:59:15 -0800

How about a cross between semen and The Pepsi Challenge?

Comment by Martin

Martin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:49:41 -0800

I am with @8 and @9. This study is useless. The men self-selected. Come on, they were already going to a fertility clinic. It is not really a stretch to suspect that their semen quality is going to be low to begin with.

Once again sensationalism wins over actual science. Meh.

Comment by Colton

Colton — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:09:19 -0800

This doesn't bode well for my radioactive children's super powers.

What kind of super suit would "Captain Speed-Dial" wear do you think?

Comment by sorryroger

sorryroger — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:14:53 -0800

I don't ever again want to read a sentence about semen that has the words "mouth feel" in it. BLARG!

Comment by Greg

Greg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:04:34 -0800

Dan, you should really put together a group of sommeliers for that kind of study.