Bisphenol A Found In Shopping Receipts Can Lead To Impotence?

Today in super-tenuous connections: men shopping can lead to impotence. The Telegraph reports:

Researchers have found that a chemical compound found on some till receipts contains enough of the hazardous substance Bisphenol A (BPA) to suppress male hormones in the body.

The compound--used to make ink visible on thermally sensitive paper--is ingested when men handle the paper--and then touch their mouths or handle food.

Berlin-based urologist Professor Frank Sommer told the Telegraph that, "A substance like that could shift the balance of the sex hormones in men towards estrogen....In the long term this leads to less sexual drive, encourages the belly instead of the muscles to grow and has a bad effect on erection and potency."

The substance is also found in cans and tins of food. BPA has been banned in Canada and three US states. And this is why men can't buy new clothes, run an errand for you or pick up the groceries, ladies. It's all science!

Comments

[inkongirl]

01:39 PM on 07/01/2010

That is why there is online shopping available.

[Daruni Nara]

03:37 AM on 07/01/2010

Heh, excuses.

[BadBadKitty]

02:49 AM on 07/01/2010

Guys don't linger in stores. Thats for sure. Unless they are with their wife of girlfriend.

[BurgessPenguin]

02:08 PM on 07/01/2010

Which is also referred to as "unlawful restraint." :)

[KJLSanDiego]

02:16 AM on 07/01/2010

I will never drag my boyfriend to the mall again! even to buy him stuff!

[ButchManowski]

06:00 PM on 06/30/2010

It's true. Men do not shop. The go buy things. And then go home.

[EnPointe3]

10:25 AM on 07/01/2010

hit it right on the head. LOL

[Dappered]

04:04 PM on 07/01/2010

I shop. Plenty. And so do a lot of other guys. It's kind of a fun challenge to find a great deal. But the fat dudes being dragged around by their equally plump wives, muching on huge mall cookies and slurping down the Orange Julius... he might have a hard time SEEING his bits and pieces. Let alone using them.

[ShawnFSilver]

05:50 PM on 06/30/2010

"also found in cans and tins of food."

Well, this is specific.

If it's beer cans, anyone who drinks cheap beers is screwed.

[theryan]

08:10 AM on 07/01/2010

Glass bottles are going to be my new staple.

[octaviosergio2]

04:54 PM on 06/30/2010

hey how about putting viagra on the receipts. your woman will take you shopping or tell you to stay home and watch the game.

[UhOh1]

04:11 PM on 06/30/2010

i was so tired of the 1,0000000,00000's of studies that come out saying a then b then b then a then a then b before this one. now i can't even speak. this is so dumb it's beyond words.

[Malarcus]

03:28 PM on 06/30/2010

Men shop, they do not "go shopping." Women go shopping and many times drag their man with them. This is a time honored domination technique used to keep men in line. Another time honoerd technique is to force your man to walk your obscenely tiny dog. The one with the bow and the tartan vest? You know the one. Shame on you.

[Tails]

03:37 PM on 06/30/2010

Straight men shop, g@y men go shopping.

I learned this when a trip to Nordstroms actually managed to dent my Trust Fund.

[Dappered]

04:06 PM on 07/01/2010

Straight men also go shopping. And straight and gay men who DON'T have Trust Funds head to http://dappered.com Sorry. Stick your trust fund in your pipe and smoke it.

[BowlingForRevenge]

02:37 PM on 06/30/2010

BAD? No this is GOOD!!
EASY male birth control!
Stuff ALL the "till" receipts you can find in his pants pockets
Now he can spend all his money on YOU!

[Niasia]

02:39 PM on 06/30/2010

LOL!!

[Tails]

03:38 PM on 06/30/2010

But, if he spends all his money on you, how can he look good? Isn't that important?

[FlaviaDeLuce]

01:49 PM on 06/30/2010

This is nuts, wow!

[Oxonian2001]

02:54 PM on 06/30/2010

In more ways than one!

[StAlphonso]

01:41 PM on 06/30/2010

So, that's how Pottery Barn does it.

[LMPE]

01:29 PM on 06/30/2010

I would be more likely to just re-wear the same clothes until they collapse. Never buy anything new.

[fauker1923]

01:19 PM on 06/30/2010

shopping is a lil death