Heh, I see what you did there, subby.

Also, everybody with a red swimming badge or higher - PANIC!

Nirvana was so edgy for 1993. Blrrrraaaaarggggff.

"Chlorinated Scrotums" would be a great name for a band...

So a study on male swimmers indicated those studied were predominantly white. Who knew

It's true. Swimming in a public pool with teenage girls in bikinis gave me a raging boner when I was 15. So the was a hormonal.... something.

FTA: The study's findings are preliminary, and the researchers plan more tests to rule out other factors such as bath water that may contribute to lowered hormone levels in boys.

So, boys should just stay out of the water entirely?

In before someone accuses this of causing teh gay?

This just in... men taking baths have likely issues with their testosterone.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Nirvana was so edgy for 1993. Blrrrraaaaarggggff.

Oh, look, I'm wearing a flannel shirt and I'm so depressed and nobody loves me.

Significant shrinkage!!

/like a frightened turtle

Nutsac_Jim: This just in... men taking baths have likely issues with their testosterone.

Don't give the little kids any ideas. It's hared enough getting them to bathe.

So, chlorinated water is bad for boys? I'm glad I (almost) always went swimming in a lake - with fish poop.

I saw this on the shelf at B&N last week.

I lol'd thanks subby

Your skin absorbs more chlorine from showering in municipal water than if you were to drink a full days supply of water. Fun fact.

Big Man On Campus: FTA: The study's findings are preliminary, and the researchers plan more tests to rule out other factors such as bath water that may contribute to lowered hormone levels in boys.

So, boys should just stay out of the water entirely?

Yes. Water is actually packed full of a dangerous chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). It has been well documented for thousands of years that DHMO is the direct cause of countless deaths per year and the list of links between DHMO and major diseases is growing every day. Avoidance of DHMO and public pools is the only solution. But it doesn't just stop at death -

FTFA - The lowered hormone levels may contribute to reproductive problems such as reduced sperm

Reduced sperm levels in boys aged 7-18. This is an enormous problem, reduced sperm production IN OUR CHILDREN. Thank god for the follow-up research going on:

FTFA - The study's findings are preliminary, and the researchers plan more tests to rule out other factors such as bath water that may contribute to lowered hormone levels in boys.

This finding will be incredibly important. We need to know the exact cause of this. We need to know what is causing a 20% reduction in testosterone IN OUR CHILDREN. What does this 20% reduction result in? A (maybe) reduced sperm count IN OUR CHILDREN! Anything else? Who knows but did I mention it was IN OUR KIDS?

If a 7 year old has a reduced sperm count caused by swimming and he stops swimming, will he be able to reproduce by the time he's 8?! I don't know, nor does the study but this is IN OUR CHILDREN!!!

Scientists are kind of creepy being concerned with the scrotum of a child.

I was in the pool!!

/shrinkage?

So, this is why Non-Swimmers now have a higher birthrate as opposed to Swimmers. Interesting.

lennavan: Big Man On Campus: FTA: The study's findings are preliminary, and the researchers plan more tests to rule out other factors such as bath water that may contribute to lowered hormone levels in boys.

So, boys should just stay out of the water entirely?

Yes. Water is actually packed full of a dangerous chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). It has been well documented for thousands of years that DHMO is the direct cause of countless deaths per year and the list of links between DHMO and major diseases is growing every day. Avoidance of DHMO and public pools is the only solution. But it doesn't just stop at death -

FTFA - The lowered hormone levels may contribute to reproductive problems such as reduced sperm

Reduced sperm levels in boys aged 7-18. This is an enormous problem, reduced sperm production IN OUR CHILDREN. Thank god for the follow-up research going on:

FTFA - The study's findings are preliminary, and the researchers plan more tests to rule out other factors such as bath water that may contribute to lowered hormone levels in boys.

This finding will be incredibly important. We need to know the exact cause of this. We need to know what is causing a 20% reduction in testosterone IN OUR CHILDREN. What does this 20% reduction result in? A (maybe) reduced sperm count IN OUR CHILDREN! Anything else? Who knows but did I mention it was IN OUR KIDS?

If a 7 year old has a reduced sperm count caused by swimming and he stops swimming, will he be able to reproduce by the time he's 8?! I don't know, nor does the study but this is IN OUR CHILDREN!!!

The point TFA is trying to make is that, in 10 to 20 years there will be an explosion of Blaktino babies born to white mothers and even less civilized white babies than normal, because everyone knows only civilized white people use pools. So if your teenage daughter is passed out at the party and get a train pulled on her the strongest sperm will win.

/amirite?
// sorry I watched Idiocracy this weekend

I love the drum intro to "Breed", but there is absolutely nothing else about that album all these years later that interest me. Penis.

So ... what they're saying is too much swimming means not enough little swimmers?

That's interesting about scrotum skin absorbing something. Why would it do that? Why not other areas of skin? Does that mean we should start wearing nicotine patches on our balls for better results??

gelatinous mouse ?

Thorndyke Barnhard: Heh, I see what you did there, subby.

I don't.

FTA: There were no significant hormonal changes in boys who swam in outdoor chlorinated pools.

So the exact same chemicals outside have no effect. Either sunlight neutralizes something in chlorine or there is something fishy about this study...