Tanning or Birth Control?

What NOT to do!

The medical field has provided us with zillions of improvements to our lives, making it easier for us to live a life of leisure and comfort on the cheap. Think about it. We older people used to have to get up to change the channels on our televisions, speak into a phone that was attached to the wall even if our parents were standing right there (POS), and fast food was something that happened when Mom said, "You can leave the table when you finish your broccoli." The internet? Digital music and players? not even close.
This also hearkens back to the days when the only way to get a tan was to lie outside under the broiling sun with aluminum foil surrounding the face (or, as people around here mistakenly say "Lay out"), and birth control was achieved by counting days or simply not "doing it." Ah, medical science.
It appears now that men can achieve both of those medical advances simply by using a laptop computer! In a research article presented in Pediatrics magazine, researchers discovered that by using a laptop placed, well, on top of the lap, a condition known as "toasted Skin Syndrome" might develop...a mottled, darkened skin condition resulting from exposure to the heat of a laptop that was remarkably similar to the effects of continued exposure to the sun's rays!
Swiss researchers noted several cases in which exposure of up to six hours a day over a period of time was likely to result in this skin condition: not necessarily leading to cancer. Sound familiar? You bet! It's surfing the internet AND catching some rays , even on cloudy days or on days where one cannot afford to "go tanning."
And for men leery of surgical procedures to limit procreation powers, this source of heat has also been linked to reduced sperm production. Hey, a win-win!
Sadly, though, there is no report of such an effect on women who used a laptop atop their laps.
Other than a tan, I mean...and without the waxing and all the other stuff that normally goes into the process.
Isn't science great?