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Just stumbled upon this article on Gizmodo,
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It will be interesting to have the opinion of doctors on board here...
Mat Honan — Your bike is destroying your penis. Unless you are a woman. In which case it's destroying your vagina. There is a solution. But nobody wants to use it because it's embarrassing. It doesn't have to be. We're here to help.
When you sit on a traditional bike saddle, you put an enormous amount of pressure on your perineum. Which is exactly where pressure isn't supposed to go. As The New York Times reports
"There's as much penis inside the body as outside," [reproductive physiologist Dr. Steven Schrader] told me. "When you sit on a regular bike saddle, you're sitting on your penis."
More precisely, according to Dr. Schrader's measurements, you are putting 25 to 40 percent of your body's weight on the nerves and blood vessels near the surface of the perineum. "That part of the body was never meant to bear pressure," Dr. Schrader said. "Within a few minutes the blood oxygen levels go down by 80 percent."
When you sit on a traditional bike saddle, you put an enormous amount of pressure on your perineum. Which is exactly where pressure isn't supposed to go. As The New York Times reports
"There's as much penis inside the body as outside," [reproductive physiologist Dr. Steven Schrader] told me. "When you sit on a regular bike saddle, you're sitting on your penis."
More precisely, according to Dr. Schrader's measurements, you are putting 25 to 40 percent of your body's weight on the nerves and blood vessels near the surface of the perineum. "That part of the body was never meant to bear pressure," Dr. Schrader said. "Within a few minutes the blood oxygen levels go down by 80 percent."
It will be interesting to have the opinion of doctors on board here...
. Now figure out a way to either shift the brake lever on the left side or the gear lever on the right. On second thought, why bother. Get a scooter and modify the seat like the auto rickshaws 
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