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 man’s “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.”
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YES!
All men must wear kilts.
The only reason I go to Highland games ping.
:)
???? Kilt News ????
And one could tell by how he walked he'd drunk more than his share
It goes downhill from there...
/johnny
Now we know why Sean Connery always has that roguish smile on his face.
That's taking the red hair a bit too far.
/johnny
Sorry, scrotums are illegal in the United States.
I don’t know where you’ve been, but I see you’ve won first prize.
I'll need to starch and iron first.
No, not the kilt.
/johnny
‘Tis a SPORRAN, ye bludy Sassenach, nay a cod piece!
Sorry. My troops need a staging area.
Not that I've tried it. I just reasoned that out...
/johnny
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