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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bodyodd.nbcnews.com ...
I read them faithfully until the one novel veered into rum, sodomy, incest and the lash.
After his ancestor raped him, I have no idea what happened to either Jamie or Claire.
Diana jumped the shark and I didn’t follow her.
Do one of Mel Gibson in a kilt and you really will have made my night.
*But*, Gerard is eye candy regardless.
:)
Cymru am byth!
Thank you very much.
Anyone advocating ALL men in kilts should take another look at congress.
Now ask yourself, did we REALLY need to know that?
Was all that research done on a gubmint “grant”? Amazing what people will study.
Not the entire US, just in Congress...
IIRC it was Lord Kitchener who said of the kilt,
“The finest uniform ever devised for either fornication or diarrhea.”
Now that is a kilt
That is not a good picture of him, but he still looks good. I am a woman, and I must say that I always found him extremely attractive. I think it was probably the voice and not just the handsome face. Then I found out about his politics. :(
The tattoos and the girl arms really take away from the otherwise great kilt look.
"I'm free -- and I'm lovin' it!!
OMGoodness! You really are an Alice Insider!! ;-)
You’re a delightfully upbeat, funny, entertaining man.
But she simply wouldn't climb back down, I had to unzip to get her out.
Oh, did I mention that squirrels have needle sharp claws? I'm guessing you already know that...
/johnny
JRandomFreeper ~ Go ahead and scratch me off of your list of candidates.
I'm open to the possibility...
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