This weeks comic
Tonymufc
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Just picked up a copy of this weeks comic and on page 28 is a feature on impotence. A urologist named Dr Irwin Goldstein claims that there are two type of cyclists - those that are impotent and those that will be impotent. So my solution to this problem is simple. Stop cycling? Hell no. Before your old chap goes south get as much of the good stuff as can. I'm gonna let the wife read the article when she gets home cos I plan on making a start tonight. 
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Tonymufc wrote:Just picked up a copy of this weeks comic and on page 28 is a feature on impotence. A urologist named Dr Irwin Goldstein claims that there are two type of cyclists - those that are impotent and those that will be impotent. So my solution to this problem is simple. Stop cycling? Hell no. Before your old chap goes south get as much of the good stuff as can. I'm gonna let the wife read the article when she gets home cos I plan on making a start tonight.
there are two types of men - those who are impotent and those who will be impotent. Don;t know why cyclists are being singled out particularly.
Are there any stats / details to go with this alarmist claim?
Just been googling - this all goes back to an unpublished study back in 1997 which is disputed by other experts in the field. Newspapers keep banging on about it - it's almost as if they have some hidden agenda to make people afraid to cycle or something.
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surely you're more likely to become impotent if you sit on your fat arse all day long? I always believed the risk of impotence was vastly outweighed by the increase in cardio/vascular fitness that cycling brings.
Am I wrong? Please elaborate on the article!0 -
But even today, Goldstein’s study has never been published by a peer-reviewed journal. In fact when Furchgott asked Goldstein for a copy of his paper or the data behind his claims, Goldstein told him that they were unavailable, but that he would describe the results of his study over the phone.
William Steers, the chairman of the urology department at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville and a critic of Goldstein’s claims, notes that if bicycles do cause male impotence it is hard to explain the continued fertility of men in countries where bicycle use is almost ubiquitous. As Steers puts it, “In China 90 percent of the male population cycles, and they don’t seem to have a problem maintaining the population.”0 -
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Rob Spedding, Editor, Cycling Plus0
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Tonymufc wrote:Just picked up a copy of this weeks comic and on page 28 is a feature on impotence. A urologist named Dr Irwin Goldstein claims that there are two type of cyclists - those that are impotent and those that will be impotent. So my solution to this problem is simple. Stop cycling? Hell no. Before your old chap goes south get as much of the good stuff as can. I'm gonna let the wife read the article when she gets home cos I plan on making a start tonight.
If I let my missus see that she'll have me out on my bike training hard enough to turn pro :shock:
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See, as far as sperm count goes I’m not sure but as far as ‘good wood’ goes cycling’s a cure for any droopiness. Anyone else find themselves in possession of 'the horn' following a bike ride? Usually anything over two hours and within fifteen minutes of getting off* there it is - the big fella. The irony is that I’m often too knackered to then proceed. Funny old world, eh?
*Fnaar fnaar etc.0 -
Pross wrote:Tonymufc wrote:Just picked up a copy of this weeks comic and on page 28 is a feature on impotence. A urologist named Dr Irwin Goldstein claims that there are two type of cyclists - those that are impotent and those that will be impotent. So my solution to this problem is simple. Stop cycling? Hell no. Before your old chap goes south get as much of the good stuff as can. I'm gonna let the wife read the article when she gets home cos I plan on making a start tonight.
If I let my missus see that she'll have me out on my bike training hard enough to turn pro :shock:
Trust me my friend I know where your coming from. 0 -
CHRISNOIR wrote:See, as far as sperm count goes I’m not sure but as far as ‘good wood’ goes cycling’s a cure for any droopiness. Anyone else find themselves in possession of 'the horn' following a bike ride? Usually anything over two hours and within fifteen minutes of getting off* there it is - the big fella. The irony is that I’m often too knackered to then proceed. Funny old world, eh?
*Fnaar fnaar etc.
You can never be to tired mate. Surely there's always enough energy for that. Or is that just me. 0
