Posted on 04/26/2013 8:41:08 PM PDT by oxcart
You might credit the legendary Scottish male virility of past time to single malt whiskey, or the sometimes brutal weather, or the fact that haggis is the national dish, but a Dutch researcher is proposing another answer:
It was the kilts.
Kilts, worn as they were meant to be worn, without underwear, lets our laddies swing freely in the breeze, creating, according to researcher Erwin Kompanje, the ideal physiological scrotal environment. Exposed to the bracing Highland coolness, testicles will make robust sperm.
The modern mans scrotal environment is pretty confined these days, what with underwear and pants that hold our testicles close to the body and its 98.6-degree heat, Kompanje, a senior researcher in the department of intensive care at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, told NBCNews.com. But as he pointed out in a paper published online in the Scottish Medical Journal, adequate spermatogenesis requires a temperature about 3 degrees [Celsius] lower than normal body temperature. (That would translate to about 93 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to the normal body temperature of 98.6 Farenheit.)
Testicular temperature is regulated by the cremaster muscle the muscle that covers the testicles -- that raises and lowers the scrotum in response to heat and cold. The cremaster reflex only works, and has any sense, when the scrotum is hanging free, Kompanje said. In tight trousers it cannot work. In a naked man, or a man wearing a kilt, it can and will.
(Excerpt) Read more at bodyodd.nbcnews.com ...
It doesn’t matter how active the sperm are if they are deposited in a mans anus, they won’t germinate and grow.
Ironic that manliness at its free-swinging best requires...a skirt.
Ring ding diddle iddle i de o...
/johnny
The problem is that neither Wal-Mart nor JCPenney’s, where most of us shop for men’s clothes, carries kilts, and if they did, would you try them on in the women’s dressing room?
LOL
He wasn’t ‘going commando’, however.
;D
Worked out well for Lazarus Long...
Kinda like “Pants on the Ground” for a certain part of the populace: Liberals.
Happy Sperm make MANY more EBT babies.
(That’s right...I said it.)
Only if you shopped at Macy’s
Lad I don’t know where ye been,
but I see you won first prize!
Not that I've tried it. I just reasoned that out...
Not a cat, but I can attest that allowing a squirrel to crawl up inside your pant leg is a bad idea.
I am going to become a Scottish Rite.
Tartans for everyone!!!!
Free!!!! Free at last!!!
Anyone - ANYONE?? “Outlander” series by Dianna Gabaldon?
Jamie Fraser? Claire? Historical romance with Time Travel?
Men in kilts all over the place? Well, in this awesome series, the sperm under the kilts are verra happy, and it’s a wonderful series to get addicted to. Gee, I seem to be attracted to manly men, whether Lairds of Scotland in kilts or crabmen on the Bering Sea. Thank God for men who own their naugty bits under their Sporran.
(making angry squirrel sound)
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