Tests on new kind of ‘hot pants’
NZPA-Reuter Montreal
Six men are trying out a new way to keep warm and stay sterile with special underwear designed to act as a contraceptive by squeezing vital areas.
Dr Pierre Dongier, explaining the year-long experiment, said: “The method we are using is a kind of tight underwear that keeps the testicles close to the body.”
The idea, he said, was to cut down the production of sperm by increasing the temperature of the testicles.
“There is a little chafing at first and it was a little uncomfortable, but you get used to it.”
The six Montreal researchers are taking no chances with the Frenchdesigned underwear which they have remodelled for themselves. They are using other contraceptive methods during the experiment. Dr Dongier said it might take up to two years of monthly sperm count tests to measure the effectiveness of the “hot pants” before a marketing decision was taken.
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