RE: Beware the Laptop! (danger of wearing pants)

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>PS. Where the H..l do I have that reprint BTW?



Found it! (I have a file filled with "funny publications")



The authors obviously had thermocouple devices to measure scrotal 

temperature on nudists and non-nudists and people dressing and disrobing 

(temp. = f(time). It was "trained nudists" and parallel controls for outdoor 

measurements and then there were indoor measurements.





A I read this, I have a vague memory that another prof. in radiation biology 

(now also prof. em.) mentioned that they had experimented on themselves 

including in saunas and other contexts - but that is not mentioned in this 

publication (they mention hot baths etc however).



I will give you 2-3 sentences from the last page:

"The fact that our modes of dress have been predominant for several 

centuries might explain almost half the present load of spontaneous 

mutations. We thus see how modes of dress based chiefly on sexual taboos 

might imply genetic hazards 100 - 1,000 times greater than those estimated 

from different sources of radiation (ref). If the eugenists regard this 

increase as dangerous, the design of male clothing will have to be 

reformed..."



My personal initiative only,



Bjorn Cedervall     bcradsafers@hotmail.com

http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/





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