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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Childless couple told to try sex
2004-05-17
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.
We don't make this stuff up, we don't have to.
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?".
Huh?
"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.
Some people really need to get out more.
Posted by:Steve

#19  Germany - The place where a dead guy turned skeleton was only discovered five years after the terminal event because his disability payments finally fell short of his rent and utilities.
Automatic deposit and withdrawl at the bank.
They knew the exact date of death because his robed skeleton was found in the recliner, TV guide opened to the presumed date of death, five years earlier. The TV set had failed somewhere along the line. . . .

Bottom line, why was this couple's respective parents not at least doing the birds and bees thing when they were 12-13 years of age?

How did he get thru school without his comrades showing him certain magazines that at least one in a crowd has access to?
Posted by: BigEd   2004-05-17 11:25:46 PM  

#18  SH - or a broken eardrum
Posted by: Frank G   2004-05-17 8:03:07 PM  

#17  LOL SuperHose Bad! Bad!
Posted by: Shipman   2004-05-17 7:34:07 PM  

#16  Hey that was S.Floridian's that don't know how to vote,leave us N.Floridian's alone.:)
Posted by: djohn66   2004-05-17 5:56:25 PM  

#15  Yeah, Fred, there are a lot of them here. I live in PA, just outside of Harrisburg; never stopped in the Amish country but travelled through it plenty of times. The sheer number of Stoltfutzes alone makes for some big buggy-jams at times.

Do you know, I once heard some idiot liken the Wahhabis to the Amish, in that both were extremely conservative? Incredible, that. The Amish are a great example of how a conservative religion can for the most part survive and allow the rest of society to pass it by (although if you believe my younger brother, the "simple life" is just a ploy, and they've actually got vast underground complexes powered by packs of mules, and wooden, water-wheel-powered death rays . . .).
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-05-17 5:25:04 PM  

#14  There has to be some kind of a Darwin Award nomination here..... If you're too dumb to figure out how to procreate, you shouldn't
Posted by: Mercutio   2004-05-17 5:05:35 PM  

#13  What are the odds that she goes to the ER would a dangerously distended nostril.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-05-17 5:03:02 PM  

#12  I think we have discovered the intended audience for the "prior to plane taxiing" demonstration of how to buckle and unbuckle the seat belts.
Posted by: Anonymous4828   2004-05-17 5:01:04 PM  

#11  Are these people perhaps from Florida originally? People there have trouble finding the the hole!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2004-05-17 5:00:14 PM  

#10  if they couldn't figure it out on their own then they prolly shouldn't have kids. OTOH, 10 years from now we'll prolly be reading about how they had 7 kids.....
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-05-17 4:56:49 PM  

#9  Damn! You dont even have to be TOLD to do it. Its farking instinctive. Like a baby's searching for his/her mother's teat.

Do we really want people this bad off breeding?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-05-17 4:38:38 PM  

#8  If I was witty I'd make some comment about how Puritanism is always said to be descending on America, yet always seems to land in Europe.

But I'm not, so I won't....
Posted by: Carl in N.H.   2004-05-17 4:33:07 PM  

#7  That's some kinda religious environment they've got going there. Last time I was in Pennsylvania there were still lots of little miniature Amish people to be seen, and I have a hard time imagining how you can get more religious than them...

Unless the couple was originally from Balochistan, of course...
Posted by: Fred   2004-05-17 2:41:04 PM  

#6  I'm expect life will be looking up for them shortly.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-05-17 2:16:57 PM  

#5  Angie> I believe I've also heard that case -- I remember that there was such a case in an Asian country anyway.
Posted by: Aris Katsaris   2004-05-17 1:34:09 PM  

#4  I think its best that they continue the way thay are - people that dumb don't deserve the "happy ending"
Posted by: Yosemite Sam   2004-05-17 1:15:22 PM  

#3  Sounds like a really strict fundamentelist christian group of some sort.
Posted by: Steve   2004-05-17 12:46:15 PM  

#2  I'm speechless. Were these people the recipients of Islamic sex-ed or something? How dense do you have to be to not know that one part fits into another quite nicely - or, indeed, to figure it out? Have these people been living in a cave or something?

Yeah, I don't think I'd ever heard of a case like it, either; there are a lot of interesting infertility cases, but this one takes the cake.
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-05-17 12:34:14 PM  

#1  The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it...

When I was a teenager I had a book of jokey strange-but-true occurrences. There was a case like that in it. I vaguely remember the couple in that case were Chinese. I'm surprised the clinic had never heard of such a thing. Maybe their doctors need to get out more.
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2004-05-17 12:19:11 PM  

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