Radiation
Many years ago, I heard a talk by a fellow who had been TV critic for one of the local newspapers. He claimed to have been told that TVs brought on sterility, and to have guarded against this by turning an armchair around, and watching while he knelt on the seat. I assume this was facetious.
Those with eclectic tastes in reading may remember a bit in Thomas Pynchon's novel V in which a sailor considers exposure to radar as a method of birth control.