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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plastic-chemical-linked-to-changes-in-baby-boys-genitals/

Lower prenatal androgen exposure has detectable effects on baby boys -- notably for purposes of this study, it shrinks their taints (the balls move closer to the anus). Among Scandinavian boys (and I'd bet throughout the Western world), taints are shrinking. Some scientists surmise that exposure to estrogen-mimicking derivatives from plastics has caused this effect.