Holy Bleepin’ Bleep! Do Phthalates Rob Men of Penis Size?
October 7, 2008 · Print This Article
Treehugger asks if kids exposed to Phthalates, a chemical used to make plastics soft, grow up to have small penises. How do you get people to care about keeping Phthalates out of the environment? Take away their girth (and beer).
Phthalates, the plasticizer used to make vinyl soft, have been known to be a gender-bender that has been shown to affect the masculinity of rats. Even the Bush Administration, not renowned for its defence of the public against the chemical companies, has banned it from childrens’ toys.
Now new research has found new evidence of “phthalate syndrome”- smaller penises, and undescended or incompletely descended testicles- in humans. Shanna Swan, director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester’s school of medicine, who led the research, says phthalates are “”probably reproductive toxins and should be eliminated from products gradually because we don’t need them.”
What do you think the American Chemical Council’s reaction was?
A- OMG!!! Small dicks are no joke, let’s figure this out.
or
B- Stop complaining you small packaged whiners. There’s nothing to worry about.
If you picked A, you’re either very very naive or a member of the American Chemical Council. They’re stock answer was to “cautioned against over-interpreting any individual study.”
I’m sorry, but a whole generation of mini-endowed dudes will have a major bone to pick with that position someday (bad pun intended).
It’s just another way we’re killing ourselves. Stories like this make me sad (and glad Phthalates weren’t around when I was a baby).
Head over to Treehugger for some tips on avoiding Phthalates.
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- Remove the chemicals from our milk!
- Tabitha Wambui Muraguri : Kenya
- Keep Pharmaceuticals Out of Illinois' Rivers and Streams
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I wrote a small post about Phthalates last week and it’s absolutely scary what some of theses things are doing to us. The funny thing is, I’m sure the American public would pay more attention to the concern of Phthalates affecting penis size before being concerned about other potential side effects such as cancer, asthma, etc
This must be what happened to my X boyfriend, maybe I should forward him this… lol.
@Leslie Ouch.
If we can get the average American dick down to a size that forgoes promiscuity, then the Americans girls ages 12 to 16, one in four of whom have contracted STD,s might get a chance to grow up and properly mature before being destroyed/damaged/distracted - a healthy thing! If these girls were fed less hormones in their food and were allowed time to get proper educations before blooming so gloriously, they would be demanding better health care and good solid economy building, “zero running cost, zero upkeep” homes for the survival of their off-spring instead of the foolishly immature barbie girl McMansions that have broken the back of our economy! Africa is a country of statistically larger dicks than any other place on earth and our society is headed in that same direction all too fast. Our commercialized perverted sexual beliefs are a malignancy in a normally conservative and caring society. If we don’t control the blatant sexploitation of the American youth soon, we will have to pay with a bleak uneducated worn out workforce of over-sexed, undereducated goons that want only one thing - immediate gratification.
Uncle B, you need to get laid.
“Blooming so gloriously” - wow. Uncle B, step away from the young girls. Also, ah, I doubt that many scientists would tie penis size to STDs. Something about your comment reminds me of the blathering on Dr. Bronner’s labels.
I think he’s saying that small penises would mean less girls would want to fool around, hence- they’d get less STDs. I love when the real crazies find their way in.
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