Lest anyone wonder why they studied the effect of mobile phones on rabbits’ sex lives, Nader Salama, Tomoteru Kishimoto, Hiro-Omi Kanayama and Susumu Kagawa spelled out their reasons. Many scientists had tried (though for the most part failed) to prove that repeatedly holding a mobile phone against a person’s head causes damage to the brain. The four scientists looked ahead to a perhaps different question: will holding a mobile phone near a man’s testicles affect that man’s sexual behaviour?
They devised an experiment. Given the expense, complexity and delicacy of doing it with humans, they opted instead for rabbits.
Salama, Kishimoto, Kanayama and Kagawa say, sweepingly, that they are the first to “have analysed the potential effect of exposure to electromagnetic waves emitted from mobile phones on male sexual behaviour”. Details appear in their monograph called Effects of Exposure to a Mobile Phone on Sexual Behaviour in Adult Male Rabbit: An Observational Study, published in the International Journal of ImpotenceResearch. The team performed this experiment at Tokushima School of Medicine in Japan.
They documented the ruttings (under admittedly artificial conditions) of six male rabbits that had switched-on phones near their genitals for 12 weeks, six that had switched-off phones, and another six that were phoneless.
The scientists noted the particulars of each mounting, and watched for the moment each rabbit went into “a state of sexual exhaustion”. They report that the bunnies with active phones “got sexually exhausted earlier”. This discovery, they emphasise, “might have some practical implications”.
SOURCE: The Guardian
Posted on June 27th, 2010 at 10:33 pm by Lin McNulty
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