Filed under: Etc., Safety, Tech
We knew it! Heated seats boil your boys
Heated seats can be just what the doctor ordered in the middle of winter, but if you're trying to pass on your car-loving gene pool, you may be better off freezing. Scientists studying male fertility have discovered that the proliferation of heated seats raises the temperature of your junk by a full degree Fahrenheit verses sitting in the car without artificially warmed seats. That's enough to cut your chances of reproducing, and it makes us strategically point a fan at close range just thinking about it. Even without electronically warmed seat bottoms, guys that sit in the car for long periods of time raise the temperature of their man parts by a couple degrees above optimal sperm-making levels. Hmmm, just typing "above optimal sperm-making levels" makes us a bit queasy. The cure? Turn off the heated seats, wear boxers, and don't sit in the car for too long at once. OK... lets talk about something else.
[Source: Drive]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Fatima 10:35AM (8/28/2008)
Unless you are procreating immediately after getting out of the car, then it really won't matter since the sperm levels will become normal after a while anyway.
Besides there are a TON of things that effect sperm levels, such as what you eat, how much you exercise, etc.
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Bungle 2:57PM (8/28/2008)
Who said anything about getting out of the car to procreate?
WhyNotTheC63? 3:20PM (8/28/2008)
This would explain why when ... well let's just say it was thin when ... and that's why it ran off her like water. Ok, well that answers that question.
Rick 10:36AM (8/28/2008)
Heat produces a virtual condom? Old news. Hot tubs got the same wrap from the docs.
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Bungle 11:07AM (8/28/2008)
Haha, "virtual condom." Isn't that what one wears to have "virtual sex?"
Red 11:14AM (8/28/2008)
Neither can help you from catching an STD though. Not quite a virtual condom. More like virtual "oops-baby kiddie catchers"...
G-Meister 11:55AM (8/28/2008)
Virtual pregnancy isn't the issue in virtual sex. The real danger lies in PTV (Porn-site Transmitted Viruses).
Marq 7:57PM (8/28/2008)
Even more threatening to fertility is the effect of consistent farting on leather seats. That'll get your boys much hotter than a heated seat.
vwraceguy 10:46AM (8/28/2008)
On the opposite side of the scale, I drove a Buick Lucerne Super with air cond seats and my "parts" stayed a VERY comfortable temperature for a 4-hr trip. If that option is available on any vehicle I'm looking at, I will buy it.
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Bungle 11:05AM (8/28/2008)
No kidding. I rode in a friend's Lincoln Aviator, and although I thought that was a gimmicky option, I must say that air-conditioned seats are *very* comfortable on a hot day.
I think a lot of people have a part of their body that greatly influences their overall body temperature - for my girlfriend, if her knees get cold, her whole body is cold - and for me, I guess that part is my nutsack.
Torrent 2:45PM (8/28/2008)
I agree. But I don't want kids. So they can waste my money, for what? food? clothes? water? yeah right.
Frank 10:51AM (8/28/2008)
man parts? lol, u mean balls?
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Superleggera 2:33PM (8/28/2008)
I THINK THEY MEAN THEIR MASSIVE SWEATY TESTICLES.
Because we all dont know what they are talking about.
Jomes 10:52AM (8/28/2008)
I like my heated seats in the winter, and with 3 kids and one more on the way, I wish I could turn the temperature UP.
Actually, my seats get a little bit too hot as it is. My own sample group (of myself) has empirically shown this study to be false.
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Rocketboy 1:01PM (8/28/2008)
I hear you.. the next car I buy I will make SURE that it has heated seats.
FThorn 10:53AM (8/28/2008)
All I know is that in THREE (discrete) attempts, I have three kids.
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Seoultrain 11:47AM (8/28/2008)
jeez, i do not envy that batting average..
FThorn 12:26PM (8/28/2008)
I like getting the intended/expected results.
Ask me when they're teens, though. :)
Bungle 2:52PM (8/28/2008)
You've only had sex three times?
MikeofLA 11:06AM (8/28/2008)
Being a single, 25 year old, I don't see the problem with this... Hell, I'm going to keep my seat heaters on indefinitely.
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