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Want a baby? Have sex!
London - A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless - they weren't having sex.
The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went to see them last month for fertility tests.
Doctors subjected them to a series of examinations and found they were both apparently fertile, and should have had no trouble conceiving.
A clinic spokesperson said: "When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: "What do you mean?".
"We are not talking retarded people here, but a couple who were brought up in a religious environment who were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate."
The 30-year-old wife and her 36-year-old husband are now being given sex therapy lessons while the university clinic undertakes a study to try to find out if there are more couples with a similar lack of sex education. - Ananova.com
edit: Dont know why the link wouldn't work... :-\
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This has to be one of the stupidiest stories I have seen in a long time, and it also shows why I hate deeply fanatical religious people... it makes you wonder why there are any left when you see things like this. :-\
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Isn't sex a natural instinct? I mean.. Nodody told teh cavemen how to procreate (if they existed)
So what the hell happened at their wedding night? Did they just sit and hold hands for the evening?
Quote from: Dart on Tue 18/05/2004 03:01:22
So what the hell happened at their wedding night? Did they just sit and hold hands for the evening?
What else would you do?
What is sex?
::)
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Tue 18/05/2004 03:05:12
What is sex?
Attend Mittens... Then you'll find out.
"Welcome to Mittens, leave your gag reflex at the door!"
"Are you 'coming' to Mittens?"
"We're going to have sex... at... Mittens...."
Sounds a nice plan.
/me asks for holidays and buys tickets.
Ahh, Mittens, a giant orgy!! Oh my!!Ã, ;D
and isn't it mostly guys there.
thank goodness i won't be there. j/kÃ, :)
Exactly!
Quote from: Dark-of-Night on Tue 18/05/2004 03:23:00
Ahh, Mittens, a giant orgy!! Oh my!!Ã, ;D
Wait.. so we've
still got people who don't know why it's called "Mittens"?
(http://img25.photobucket.com/albums/v74/TheYak/mittenz.gif)
O_o...
Maybe it's a good thing I can't make it...
It'll be a straight orgy, or gay one? Because I want to know which should be the density of the condoms I should bring, the anal ones are different...
/me is amazed to see how can change the discussion in a thread if compared with the topic...
*SIGH*
AGS, you never did change :D
Maybe this is the opportunity for me to announce that once again I have proved that I know more than this couple...
Take a look at my avatar....
Due in November! ;D :D
\ :D/
Happy Children!
Congrats SSH, that's great to hear :D
I've heard that in Germany they have some different forms of sexual behaviour, Mrs Cartman style, and I think it would be pretty hard to conceive that way, Mmmm, I think they must have been doing it the wrong way.
They must have been very sheltered people without much contact with the outside world, or TV, cause surely you'd know these things by your teens let alone 30's, I don't even remember learning this stuff as I've known about it as long as I remember and before I even knew what it meant. I guess it's a gradual learning process that eventually, the pieces fit together.
I guess this is one of those very rare cases, cause surely animal instinct would kick in, or just curiosity of different body parts (I guess they probably never saw each other naked)
It seems strange that they figured out how to go to a fertility clinic, before they even knew how to conceive, makes it seem even more like a bullshit story.
Edit: ok, they were sent to a fertility clinic, but still it's a pretty sad story, I sure hope they educate their own kids better (or maybe the reason was, they weren't meant to conceive but the curiosity of others have now caused a disruption to the natural phenomenon of the situation and the offspring will be the downfall of society, the rebirth of .........)
Somehow I find the whole story hard to believe. Sexual education is part of the biology curriculum in German schools.
... maybe the two were home-schooled and their mothers never had the heart to teach them about the Birds and the Bees?
Quote from: Os à šltimo Quão Queijo ^_^ on Tue 18/05/2004 02:33:54
"We are not talking retarded people here, but a couple who were brought up in a religious environment who were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate."
The Bible does have its share of sex. Weird.
Speaking of which, there is no chance in hell a Jewish religious couple wouldn't know about sex. Of course, there is the divine law to multiply and fill the land (Don't know how it translates to English, the blessing to Man from Genesis 1). So, religious people here have plenty of children. In fact, I once came upon a document which explains to married religious couples how to perform this divine task, and it was hiliraious. So mechanical and silly. "Remove all holy books from the room", "Say this and that blessing", etc.
They're German. They probebly use the wrong hole.
Quote from: SSH on Tue 18/05/2004 09:17:21
Take a look at my avatar....
Due in November! ;D :D
OMG! You verile stud of a man you! Good job... ;)
SSH, is that you in your avatar?
You sexy thang...
Well, some of it is my wife, and some of it is my genetic material, but its not me per se...
oh, you're just being humble.
I remember that there was a similar problem in Portugal about ten years ago. There were maybe 30 couples that hadn't yet figured out the reason for the variations between boys and girls. Yeah, that's a lot.
Oh, and SSH- congratulations on the podling! (Dance, ultrasound image, dance!)
Random Fact: The youngest parents in history lived in China; the male was 8 and the female was 7 when they had their first child.
Heh, even they figured out how to concieve.
And congratulations, SSH. Do you have any idea if it's going to be a boy or girl yet?
Urg, urg, urg... no, it's too disturbing. I don't need facts like that about 7 year olds... the image. Argh!!
I find this story incredibly hard to believe... and yet somehow, I manage it. It's quite true that there are exceptions to every rule and every normality in the world out there. The idea that there are couple ut there who have just lived away from society in general and haven't been told the facts of life properly by their carers is quite conceivable. (If only they knew it! XP Ahh... stupidest pun ever).
I'd love to have an interview with this couple though, and ask them all sorts of questions about the way they thought things worked.
Dart, no, dunno if its a boy or a girl yet. We should get another scan in about 6 or 7 weeks that should let us know.
I read a stopry about a school inspector who was asked some 6 or 7 year olds "What have you been learning in class this morning" and one of them said "Teacher told us how to make babies!"
He glaced at the teacher who had turned a funny colour. "Oh yes, and how DO you make babies?" he asked the kid
"It's easy, you take of the "y" and add "ies" " replied the child...
Maybe it's my spanishity... But I don't get it... ???
baby -y = bab + ies = babies!
Get it?
I have a friend and her parents didnt want her to take sex-ed. One day she comes up to me and says, "Doesnt it suck to have your penis hard all the time?" I responded with "My penis isnt hard all the time. No ones is."
..."Oh."
Keep in mind this girl is 18. She had no idea.
Quote from: Evil on Tue 18/05/2004 21:39:51
I have a friend and her parents didnt want her to take sex-ed. One day she comes up to me and says, "Doesnt it suck to have your penis hard all the time?" I responded with "My penis isnt hard all the time. No ones is."
..."Oh."
Keep in mind this girl is 18. She had no idea.
Once a girl in my senior class (also 18) thought I had crushed my penis when I crossed my legs.. I guess she just didn't think it was possible? She was also very religiously sheltered, and soon after moved out (she wanted to rebel) of her house and became one of those girls who sleeps with lots of men. I'm sure she understands better now.
If it weren't for school I never would have known how to have sex, because of the way my parents are. Oh wait, the internet..
there was a girl in my class who didnt take sex ed. she asked me if I had to go number 1 and 2, if I had to stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down...
"actually, guys can use the bathroom sitting down too"
doesnt that break the penis?
uh....no.
weirdos.
congrats SSH!
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Tue 18/05/2004 23:51:18
She was also very religiously sheltered, and soon after moved out (she wanted to rebel) of her house and became one of those girls who sleeps with lots of men. I'm sure she understands better now.
Ha! Thats exactly the same way with my friend! :P ;D
hmmm Panda... that actually reminds me of a female friend of mine that thinks birth control with condoms is 100% effective... and that if you get pregnant its just fate, adn that the average penis size is 10 inches ::).
of course she actually WENT to sex ed, so i dunno what to make of that:P
as for the german couple, that's just kinda weird ???
You guys have weird female friends.
Most of my female friends know more about penises than I do.
Also, that story about the german couple sounds highly implausible to me...they must have led a life completely isolated from magazines, newspapers, TV and social connections.
They must also have opressed any natural instincts, or simply resented bodily contact, since an intimite couple driven by lust eventually (after 6 years) will find out the procedure of sex almost by coincidence.
Additionally, they must have lacked common sense, believing that her pregnancy would occur without any prior cause.
Socially isolated, mentally inhibited and plain stupid.
Well, I thought this story was true, but apparently all you skeptics were correct.Ã, From the latest
Private Eye:
Quote...Doubters immediately raised eyebrows at a story that sounded so much like an urban legend, although the story was full of quotes from the University Clinic of Luebeck - identifiable as the UniKlinik Lubeck.
The story was written by Berlin-based freelancer Allan Hall.Ã, When the Eye contacted Hall to ask where the story came from he snapped: "It was in Bild am Sonntag [a German tabloid] and the Medical Tribune."Ã, Er, no.Ã, There was a recent story about a Lubeck couple who sought fertility treatment in the German Medical Tribune, but the cause of their celibacy was erectile dysfunction, not ignorance.Ã, Bild am Sonntag actually reported the story fairly accurately, quoting "potenzprobleme as the cause.Ã, He quickly changed his story to "someone at the clinic told me."
And apparently this Allan Hall guy has previous form: he also changed a story about a guy with masses of pet spiders having died, so that in his version of the story, the spiders started to eat the man once he was dead.Ã, In reality, all the spiders were still in their cages when his (intact) body was found.
Journo's, eh?