Falling sperm counts

[Trionyx]

For nearly 100 years the average sperm count in Western adult males has been falling, due to certain compounds found primarily in plastics, many surmise. In the last several decades sperm counts have started falling in third world men now that plastics have made their way into their environment.
Interestingly enough, it has been shown also that as the distance from the anus to the scrotum decreases (the so-called ano-genital distance or AGD), there appears to be an associated drop in the sperm count. The non medical types will call the AGD by the more common term ‘taint.’
What this all means is the sperm counts sure taint what they used to be.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Day job? Keep it .

 

[TxRad]

Some kind of a law suit or fine was leveled on a plastic maker for non-degradable plastics found in water plants. I caught part of the story earlier tonight but not all of it.

 

[nice90sguy]

Not being a great fan of humans, I'm rather pleased about this.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Back in the 90s I went to a seminar about pollution in the Everglades. Pthalates or contraceptive hormones were getting into the water and causing what they described as 'effeminate alligators'.

I sure wouldn't like to be the researcher deciding an alligator was effeminate...

 

[MrPixel]

Sounds like a TikTok-grade story. Been enduring a raving TikTok-er and his wild-ass dis/misinformation all this past week. I gotta keep a civil relationship with this guy, but one of these days it's going to be, "That just so much wackadoodle bullshit, John."

 

[Trionyx]

Sounds like a TikTok-grade story. Been enduring a raving TikTok-er and his wild-ass dis/misinformation all this past week. I gotta keep a civil relationship with this guy, but one of these days it's going to be, "That just so much wackadoodle bullshit, John."

I wrote the piece above mainly for the closing joke but the information is all too real.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092750/

https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/34/1/12/5185660

https://www.researchgate.net/public...istance_Fatherhood_and_Fertility_in_Adult_Men

I’m sure these researchers from Stanford Medical School and Baylor College of Medicine will be glad to know their work is considered Tik Tok-grade.

 

[Euphony]

Back in the 90s I went to a seminar about pollution in the Everglades. Pthalates or contraceptive hormones were getting into the water and causing what they described as 'effeminate alligators'.

I sure wouldn't like to be the researcher deciding an alligator was effeminate...

Gator... you'll be a woman, soon.

 

[MillieDynamite]

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Gator... you'll be a woman, soon.

Soon you'll eat your man.

 

[MillieDynamite]

For some reason, I feel an urge to write an apology to Neil Diamond.

 

[jaykaythree]

For some reason, I feel an urge to write an apology to Neil Diamond.

Naahh, he'll be all right ... he should take it in his stride. After all, it's been said (has it not?) that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Naahh, he'll be all right ... he should take it in his stride. After all, it's been said (has it not?) that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Perhaps, but who knows what is sincere, and what isn't?

 

[jaykaythree]

Perhaps, but who knows what is sincere, and what isn't?

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'd love to see stats on cancer rates both pre and post-plastics. Doubt they exist though.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'd love to see stats on cancer rates both pre and post-plastics. Doubt they exist though.

Even if they did, interpretation would be extremely difficult. There have been huge changes in our ability to diagnose, and in other environmental risks since that time; we're breathing a lot less lead, cigarette smoke, and asbestos than in the pre-plastics days, and for a lot of people less smog and soot too. Separating all that out from effects of plastics seems like it'd be extremely hard.

 

[Trionyx]

I'd love to see stats on cancer rates both pre and post-plastics. Doubt they exist though.

Remember: association is not causation.

 

[jsmiam]

For nearly 100 years the average sperm count in Western adult males has been falling, due to certain compounds found primarily in plastics, many surmise. In the last several decades sperm counts have started falling in third world men now that plastics have made their way into their environment.
Interestingly enough, it has been shown also that as the distance from the anus to the scrotum decreases (the so-called ano-genital distance or AGD), there appears to be an associated drop in the sperm count. The non medical types will call the AGD by the more common term ‘taint.’
What this all means is the sperm counts sure taint what they used to be.

It’s a problem that will last forever. A perenial problem.

 

[Trionyx]

It’s a problem that will last forever. A perenial problem.

Or a perineum problem, maybe.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks, I needed that!

 

[FantasySharer1]

Nice set up for a story where women can't get pregnant by any one man's ejaculation anymore. It needs to be at least two ejaculations simultaneously, leading to an epidemic level of MFM relationships.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Nice set up for a story where women can't get pregnant by any one man's ejaculation anymore. It needs to be at least two ejaculations simultaneously, leading to an epidemic level of MFM relationships.

Slightly odd biology?

 

[FantasySharer1]

Slightly odd biology?

I'm coming off a half hour in the Story Idea section. Sorry!

 

[MillieDynamite]

NO matter how much sperm you shoot, it only takes one zygote to knock a girl up. Swim, you bastard, swim.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've never thought to count falling sperm. I try to avoid it. That's why I take an umbrella with me when I go out.

 

[yowser]

Avoid walking under balconies and construction ladders.