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Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 25, 2004, 07:20:39 am: :wtf:

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Childless couple told to try sex

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 spokesman 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.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_957945.html?menu=news.quirkies.sexlife
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Turnsky on May 25, 2004, 07:39:46 am: what?... did they think the stork brought babies to them?.. or they came out of a cabbage-patch?..:p

if they're that stupid, then they shouldn't have children.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: aldo_14 on May 25, 2004, 07:59:31 am: Clueless Childless Couple
Last week the British Daily Mirror printed a story about a particularly clueless German couple. As the article put it:
"Fertility doctors were baffled when a perfectly-healthy couple claimed they couldn't have children - until they confessed they had never made love. The husband, 36, and his 32-year-old wife thought that all they had to do to make a baby was to lie next to each other and let nature take its course."
This story got picked up by wire services, and soon was being linked to all over the internet. But was there actually any truth to the story?
The snopes website, skeptical of the story, pointed out that 'tales of sexually naive adults who don't understand what sex is' are a common subject for urban legends. But other internet sleuths dug a little deeper and discovered that the Daily Mirror's story actually derived from a real case. Comments left at Der Schockwellenreiter website (in German) pointed to this April 2003 medical article describing a couple who sought fertility treatment at the Lubeck clinic, only to later confess that after eight years of marriage they had never actually had sex. The reason: the husband suffered from erectile dysfunction. Another article from the Medical Tribune describes this same case in more detail (the article is in German, so I used BabelFish to produce a rough translation of it).
So the Daily Mirror's story improves on the actual case quite a bit. A whole lot, in fact. But it's not complete fiction. The author of the article was Allan Hall, a reporter based in Germany who regularly sells stories to the British tabloids (back in the 1990s he was the London Sun's New York correspondent). He seems to enjoy taking weird stories and juicing them up to make them even weirder. Headlines from some of his other stories include, "Dog Called Adolf Gave Nazi Salute to Children," "My Twins Had Different Dads," and "Eaten By His Pet Spiders" (this final article was apparently also more fiction than fact).

source - http://museumofhoaxes.com/
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Hippo on May 25, 2004, 08:13:16 am: oh... my... god...
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: aldo_14 on May 25, 2004, 08:16:24 am: ACtually, given that it's reported in the Daily Mirror, I'm waiting for the faked pictures before believing a word of it
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Xelion on May 25, 2004, 08:18:39 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky
if they're that stupid, then they shouldn't have children.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: kasperl on May 25, 2004, 08:21:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
ACtually, given that it's reported in the Daily Mirror, I'm waiting for the faked pictures before believing a word of it

The Daily Horror is indeed not the most reliable of sources......

OTH: I wouldn't be surprised if there were actually some doctors having to explain that to other adult couples.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Rictor on May 25, 2004, 08:40:25 am: :blah: :blah:

Well, score one for the Christians.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: kode on May 25, 2004, 09:32:27 am: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
:blah: :blah:

Well, score one for the Christians.

it'd solve the christian problem within a generation.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Lightspeed on May 25, 2004, 10:19:29 am: Knew it was fake.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: an0n on May 25, 2004, 11:00:40 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
ACtually, given that it's reported in the Daily Mirror, I'm waiting for the faked pictures before believing a word of it

ARGH! The satire! It burns! It BUUUURRRRNNnnnnnssss......
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Sandwich on May 25, 2004, 12:32:54 pm: Quote
Originally posted by kode

it'd solve the christian problem...

:wtf:
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: aldo_14 on May 25, 2004, 01:52:39 pm: Actuaslly, something did occur to me;

1 child, no sex required (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3742319.stm)
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: vyper on May 25, 2004, 02:06:40 pm: You worry me son.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: aldo_14 on May 25, 2004, 02:22:44 pm: I'm not your son!
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Corsair on May 25, 2004, 03:24:14 pm: ...please tell me that first one is fake. Please.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Unidan on May 25, 2004, 03:36:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Corsair
...please tell me that first one is fake. Please.

I believe so, a friend of mine tells me Snopes.com disproved it.. though I have yet to visit the site and see.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Windrunner on May 25, 2004, 04:24:15 pm: :lol: this is just too good to be true:lol:
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Rictor on May 25, 2004, 07:27:49 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
Actuaslly, something did occur to me;

1 child, no sex required (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3742319.stm)

Coool. Its a pity we don't have any of Einstein spunk in storage somewhere. Or Tesla's for that matter.

:wtf: :wtf:
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: Grey Wolf on May 25, 2004, 07:59:46 pm: I'm assuming Einstein's brain wouldn't help.
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: karajorma on May 26, 2004, 05:03:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
I'm assuming Einstein's brain wouldn't help.

Not yet. But one day.... :D
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: TopAce on May 26, 2004, 09:59:41 am: :wtf:
Title: Childless Couple Told To Try Sex
Post by: karajorma on May 26, 2004, 11:52:27 am: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ein.html

Cloning tech is getting better every day :)