Are your skinny jeans damaging your testicles?

Skinny jeansYour favourite jeans could seriously be damaging your health, writes Theo Watt for the National Student:

Studies have shown that wearing skinny jeans could be dangerous to your health, with risks including bladder discomfort, testicle torsion (twisted tested – ouch) and a lowered sperm count.

However, I think the horror of trying to fit into a pair of jeans two sizes too small, not to mention the fact that any sudden movement or over stretch could cause a rip at any moment, is all a worthy sacrifice in the name of fashion.

If you are lucky enough to even get your jeans above your knees you are then posed with the question: where am I going to put my nads? I mean toward the left pocket or the right?

This decision is usually comes down to deciding to risk having a funny episode every time my phone vibrates,or risking turning awkwardly and cutting them on my keys.

There is no other option but to go straight down the middle. It’s safe in the middle, so one might think. However many men are finding that as a result of wearing skinny jeans it’s all starting to get a bit delicate.

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