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...direct violation of Dr. Pincher's theory of the declining birth rate [TIME, May 7] due to the overheating of the sexual organs, I would like to point out that it is a common practice in the everyday life of the Japanese to take baths at terrific temperatures. . . . Apparently the Japanese are immune to this . . . for certainly it cannot be said that the Japanese birth rate is declining...
...Says England's Dr. H. Chapman Pincher: "Japanese fertility . . . is certainly much higher than that of Britain or the U.S., but lower than that of most Asiatic countries. By nature, the Japanese are very active breeders, and compared with the number of chances given annually for conception, their actual conception rate is probably low. I believe that if the Japanese dropped the hot bath habit their birth rate would be higher still...
Much the same conclusions were reached independently at almost exactly the same time by a London scientist, H. Chapman Pincher, who reported his studies of temperature and male fertility in the British magazine Nature...
Tests were made on a group of healthy young men kept in a steam cabinet at 110° Fahrenheit for half an hour. After 18 days, their sperm counts fell well below the minimum for fertility, and they remained sterile for 67 days. Dr. Pincher, following up this study, investigated hospital and domestic bath temperatures which range from 105 to 110°. Putting two & two together, he suggested that the modern hot bath habit may be largely responsible for the declining birth rate in "civilized" countries...
...Poke Pincher...