{"id":9,"date":"2010-05-12T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2019-08-16T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:43:02","slug":"tighty-whities-and-hot-testes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/tighty-whities-and-hot-testes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tighty Whities and Hot Testes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re trying to conceive, do you need to change your underwear from boxers to briefs?<\/p>\n<p>No doubt heat kills sperm. \u00a0The testes live outside of the abdomen for a good reason. \u00a0They need to be cool, about 4 degrees C cooler than body temperature. \u00a0Testes that don&#8217;t descend, a condition called &#8220;cryptorchidism,&#8221; have real problems making sperm. \u00a0Ovaries obviously don&#8217;t have this sensitivity to heat; they&#8217;re perfectly happy living in the abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is: how much heat kills sperm? \u00a0Crossing your legs increases your scrotal temperature by about 1 degree C, and it&#8217;s difficult to imagine that every man who crosses his legs is going to have a hard time impregnating his wife. \u00a0Form fitting underwear, or briefs, raise it by a similar amount. \u00a0Putting a laptop on your lap increases your scrotal temperature by about 1.5 degrees C or so.<\/p>\n<p>So you probably shouldn&#8217;t worry about wearing boxers or briefs, but stay away from cooking your testes in a jacuzzi or sauna while you&#8217;re trying to conceive. \u00a0Save that for stress reduction after the baby&#8217;s born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re trying to conceive, do you need to change your underwear from boxers to briefs? No doubt heat kills sperm. \u00a0The testes live outside of the abdomen for a good reason. \u00a0They need to be cool, about 4 degrees C cooler than body temperature. \u00a0Testes that don&#8217;t descend, a condition called &#8220;cryptorchidism,&#8221; have real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,18,6,17],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertility","tag-heat","tag-jacuzzi-baths","tag-sperm","tag-underwear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maledoc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}