Tangled Metal wrote:What effects do saddles have on male genitalia and their function?
None whatsoever, unless your saddle is wrong. There is quite some embarrassment about discussing this, so there probably are disappointingly many people using saddles that are wrong for them and their bike.
Conversely, there definitely are disappointing many snake-oil salespeople willing to exploit this fear and discomfort to sell products that probably do nothing good and if any help anyone, it's probably some sort of a side-effect. As someone who did a bit of a loop through a gallery of saddles before settling on some that are either saddle-shaped or sprung-surfaced (including leather hammock-style), I'm almost angry at some of the junk that is sold with pseudomedical arguments.