Compared with looser undergarments, for instance, tighter options were linked to 18 percent higher odds of producing less semen.
Tight undies were also linked to 12 percent higher odds of having fewer motile sperm, 48 percent higher odds of having fewer normally shaped sperm, and 108 percent higher odds of having more sperm with DNA fragmentation or damage.
In a secondary analysis, researchers also found that erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation were more prevalent in the tight underwear group.
“In conclusion, tight underwear was associated with poorer semen quality and a higher prevalence of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation,” the authors write, led by urologist Xue-Chun Hu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
“We don’t need condoms, babe, I wore my tighty whities today”
It works every time, 12% of the time.
I don’t need those little swimmers, but I should get a kilt. Dangly bits be happier.
When is it considered “tight” and when is it considered “loose”?
When they can swing, and clang off each other like an 80s executive desk toy, that’s loose
So they need to hang low then?
They need wobble to and fro.
and I think some type of tying might be necessary.
What about throwing them over your shoulder.
I mean. How would one even do that, like in what manner?
I image like santa claus does it with his bag of gifts.
Not unlike the manner of a continental soldier
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When they wobble to and fro.
Tight is things like “tighty whiteys” and boxer briefs. Loose are things like boxers.
Funny how we consider them worn out when the whiteys get too loose or the boxers get too tight.
I wear pajamas each day to ensure my sperm quality. It’s just for myself as I have absolutely no motivation to go anywhere but I deserve high quality sperm on my stomach after a long fought jo sesh
As god intended
Good to know for people who don’t want to have kids.
How long before the billionaires ban surgical methods of birth control, too?
Might seem strange to ask after Dems won a few seats, but remember, money is power and power corrupts, no matter which color banner they stand under.
For men? Never. For women? Already
Bah, we can boil our boys a few times a year and never have to worry bout crotch goblins
Those numbers don’t help if you want fewer kids. They only harm when you want to have some.
Yeah I wouldn’t consider tight underwear a viable contraceptive.
How long before the billionaires ban surgical methods of birth control, too?
Hysterectomies are notoriously difficult to get without husband’s permission in the US. Even when the person trying to yeet their uterus needs it gone for medical reasons. Not a long shot to see it attempted yet within Trump’s two years left.
As for stopping men from getting vasectomies? Lol, yeah right.
I got to get my V done by Dr. Dick Chopp.
I know this is a joke comment, but the procedure is pretty quick with minimal recovery time. I highly recommend it.
Can confirm, but it was not a joke. My vasectomy was done by Dr. Dick Chopp.
EDIT: He was a master of marketing.
https://cw39.com/cw39/dr-dick-chopp-offers-march-madness-vasectomies/
That’s incredible!
The scissors in the picture adds, or removes, a little something.
Thought for a moment that V was short for vajaj. Bottom surgery is one hell of a contraceptive.
I’m all for skirts for men to be back in style like kilts
Be the change you want to see. So sayeth the guy with four kilts, two skirts and one pair of below-the-knee socks.
Tesla solar powered ball coolers.
Idk what teslacoils will do down there but it’s probably worse than tight underwear
Commando gang rise up!
not really surprising. the point of the scrotum is to naturally keep your semen at the right temperature by contracting and loosening with the ambient temperature. tight underwear prevents all that
Ah nice. I need new ones, the current ones aren’t that tight anymore. Gonna buy new tight ones again, less chance of screaming shit machines.
I feel like erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation are kinda at odds. Anyway I love my tight undies and hot baths.
I take hot baths to cull the weak, only tough survivors left.
Yes! My son you survived the trial of the crushing vice and the trial of the scalding water. You are worthy!
Yeah I’m wearing boxers and sometimes it still wedgies me :(
Def going for the low sperm count
Might have to do with testosterone production?
I blame underwear (and to some extent pants) on declining birth rates in Europe in part. At least in Finland - seriously, why is almost all the underwear here so fucking tight in the ball region??? It fits my wife and girlfriend just fine so are they secretly passing off women’s overstock boxers as mens or something? Have to shop at foreign stores to find underwear that’s not designed to push your balls back into your body or something.
Same with pants at certain stores like Dressman - they size them to scale so good luck if you’re tall but not incredibly overweight. Have to basically take all pants to a tailor here, otherwise my only other option is smaller pants that start showing my calves and fit my waist but squeeze the balls so tight I could pull of a Michael Jackson “Hee-Hee”.
It fits my wife and girlfriend
Wife… and girlfriend?
Polyamorous
women’s overstock boxers
I did not know they made these. Just looked it up. Thanks for broadening my horizons.
Underwear is for sukkas.
Looks better though - if you have the body for it.
This is why gay men wear tight underwear. They look better, and sperm count doesn’t matter to them.
sperm count doesn’t matter to them
That’s… a bold statement.
High vs low sperm count tastes the same.
Are there studies on this or just anecdotally? Idk how they would design such a study in line with whatever standards there are for the health and safety of consenting study subjects.
If ever there was a place I would go 50/50 on this being a joke comment or someone actually producing a very good study, Lemmy would be it.
I’m saying it anecdotally. Though I’d assume the majority of the semen volume isn’t sperm (2-5%). It’s all just seminal fluid coming from the prostate (25-30%) and seminal vesticles (65-75%).
Source (mildly nsfw)
How do you know? And is there no correlation with volume?
Damn can’t believe I wasted all that money on a vasectomy
