Saturday, August 18, 2007

Oh, What wicked webs we weave, or Why the Manly Man isn’t Quite so Manly Anymore.

So, you think you’er as much of a man as you father, or grandfather? Think again, dude. Sperm count in the good old USA has dropped 68% since 1934! That’s right 68% and that is the stats up to 1996. At that rate, in another twenty years, men will no longer serve a useful function for Mother Nature.

No, that’s not all. There’s more bad news for men. That powerful hormone that drives your manliness? You know testosterone? A guy born in 1970 has 20% less at the age of 35 than his father or grandfather. By the time you men born since 1970 reach the age baby boomers are now, you’ll have as much male juice as a 70 or 80 year old guy from preceding generations.

Lastly is the size of the family jewels. They’re shrinking nearly as fast as prunes in the sun. There’s even a name for it: dysgenesis. To make it a little worse, testicular cancer is now the most common malignancy among Caucasian men in the USA between the ages of 18-35!!!!

This is all documented fact, dudes!

Why is this happening? Mother Nature’s not pissed off that much, right?

Do you enjoy sunbathing in NYC’s Central Park, or some grassy well kept park near you? Do you play golf? Do you walk you dog in parks maintained by a municipality, a school, university? If so, think pesticides. Particularly one with clorpyrifos, or organo-phosphate. They used to be in the stuff sold to any homeowner obsessed with lawn care. Now they’re only available to industrial users, like those guys who come around and spray crap on lawns across America.

Grow weeds instead, and let bugs enjoy life so you can be a little more manly.

Add to the list of testosterone depleting items one called phthalates used in soft gel rubber products from fishing lures to sex toys. Maybe kinky isn’t good sex after all. Maybe fishing really isn’t a sport.

Of course there’s the old reliable PCBs and dioxins which are in everything you eat and drink unless you’re into organic foods and treated water.

We all know about those hard nerve pinching bike seats, right? Too much causes permanent damage to the nerve needed for a happy and hard sex life.

Can’t live without the cell phone you clamp against your ear? Love your laptop? Your video games? Forget about radiation. Plastics have not so cool chemicals that damage DNA. Now that make radiation sound tame if you inquire and learn what those chemicals are and what they do.

There’s more, but I’ve written enough for now. Except for this. Is the lifestyle we live now really better that what was lived in 1970? Better medical care . . . If you can afford it (try getting elected to political office to solve that one), better meds . . . If you can afford them and if they’re tested enough to assure you they’re safe. Less pollution. Air and water certainly. But there is more drugs in the water you drink than you might imagine including birth control meds. Why? We are given doses too high to be used by the body so the balanced gets flushed down the toilet after every urinal visit.

Do something! Force elected officials to give a damn! Change you lifestyle and live longer, be more fruitful too.

No comments: