It could become the most inappropriate chat-up line of the year: is that a mobile phone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Because your pocket is the last place in which you should be keeping your mobile, if the latest scare story is to be believed. Especially a pocket on or about the lower half of your body… and especially if you’re a man.
For years, we worried whether mobile phones might be giving us brain tumours. Then the experts assured us our fears were unfounded. Now they have us worrying all over again — this time that mobiles could be making men infertile.
We have become so dependent on our mobiles that we can hardly remember a time when we didn’t have them. Yet it’s less than a decade since they’ve gone mainstream. In Ireland, there are now more mobile phones than people. Which means that if the scare stories ever turn out to be true, we’re all in serious trouble.
But let’s keep this in perspective. The very existence of future generations doesn’t depend on whether too many men dangle their mobiles from their belts, like modern-day six shooters in a rhinestone holster. You won’t be condemned to a bitter childless old age just because you love using up all your phone-a-friend minutes.
Like most health warnings, this latest one comes with lots of terms and conditions attached.
Specifically, men who use mobiles for four hours or more a day have an increased risk of infertility. Experiments found that such men had fewer sperm. Not only that, but those sperm weren’t as sprightly as they should be; they were punier and didn’t move about as they normally would.
On the face of it, the research for the American Society For Reproductive Medicine in Los Angeles stands up. Some 364 men were looked at. Those with the heaviest mobile phone use had the lowest sperm counts. Those who said they never used mobiles had the highest and their sperm was of the highest quality.
Even those who carried out the research aren’t yet predicting the demise of the human race if we don’t ditch our mobiles, but they point out that the findings are significant enough to warrant further research.
Dr Ashok Agarwal, who led the research, warned that mobiles could be having a devastating effect on fertility. People are now using mobiles in the same casual manner as they use a toothbrush, without considering the possible consequences, he said. “It still has to be proved, but it could be having a huge impact because mobiles are so much part of lives.”
Read more at the Belfast Telegraph
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