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Anecdote: I avoided all these things and more out of pure hypochondria for decades, and I impregnated my wife the two times we didn't use some form of birth con
by colordrops 6y ago
Anecdote: I avoided all these things and more out of pure hypochondria for decades, and I impregnated my wife the two times we didn't use some form of birth control. I even have a sort of tic I integrated where I pull my testicles out from between my legs when they get constricted, and hadn't remembered why I started doing that until you reminded me that I read something about heat being bad for sperm in the 90s.
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoAnecdote: same here, but did not avoid anything on that list.
- croisillon 6y agoYou seem to be kind of shadowban (not sure what the proper term is), you might want to write an email to the hn moderation to clear that up
- Nasrudith 6y agoIf you can reply to them they aren't shadowbanned.
- jonplackett 6y agoGood to have a counter point to the ‘I drink a pint of whisky at night and smoke crack every morning and I got my wife pregnant no problem’ argument!
- lupire 6y agoIt's not a counterpoint because no one says crack and whiskyt are required for pregnancy. It's a supporting point that sperm can develop without any particular specialized diet.
- jonplackett 6y agoI was exaggerating for effect, but this is actually the kind of 'advice' you get from people when having trouble conceiving. "We just got really drunk and stopped worrying an HEY, we made a baby! You Should try that!" OR "My best mate smokes a spliff every morning and they had a baby no problem, you shouldn't bother giving up caffeine" The 'advice' is almost as painful as the not conceiving.
- nomdep 6y agoAnecdote: when we did everything "right" and nothing. The moment we just relaxed and said "whathever", it happened. Two kids.