Man's sperm damaged by laptop heat

A British man couldn't get his wife pregnant because heat from his laptop was damaging his sperm.

Scott Reed was bemused as to why he wasn't able to have a baby with his other half Laura, 30, until doctors told him his personal computer was to blame because of the amount of heat it was generating around his manhood while he placed the gadget on his lap.

Following the doctor's advice, the 30-year-old computer buff stopped putting his laptop on his lap and within three months Laura fell pregnant with the couple's daughter Taryn.

Laura is quoted by MailOnline as saying: “I’ve never heard of this happening before. It was a real shock.

“Scott would use his laptop in the evenings for a couple of hours on and off while we were watching television.

“He used it for work and general things like Facebook. We had absolutely no idea the damage it was causing him.”