Luckily we live in a hot climate world. I still remember how good it was having a warm, heated seat to sit on in the cold winter months. According to a report titled ‘Heated seats may be frying your sperm’ in New Scientist magazine, sitting on heated seats could ruin your married life – at least the part of it relating to reproduction.
The magazine reports the work of German researchers to determine the effects of a slightly warmer scrotum on a team of healthy male volunteers caused by sitting on heated car seats for 90 minutes. Although the study did not measure sperm counts, it is feared that such a rise in temperature could damage male fertility in the long term.
Previous studies have found that sitting on a car seat for more than three hours, heated or not, can impair a man’s ability to reproduce.
To those with heated seat cars, remember this before turning on the heater on your way down from that late night ‘touge’ run in Genting Highland.
