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Europe
German politicians tell men to have more balls sex
2004-06-28
Conservative politicians are urging flaccid German men to have more sex to boost birth rates or risk being labeled “limp” abroad, a newspaper reported on Friday. Johannes Singhammer, a member of parliament and tired father of six, said Germany’s aging population needed to produce more slaves for the socialist mines offspring to sustain its overstretched pensions system. “Children are our future,” Singhammer told Germany’s Bild newspaper. “Germans need to work more on that again in bed.
Germans feel they’re entitled to a six week vacation from bed.
Things mustn’t get to the stage where German men are scoffed at abroad for being limp.”
That horse has long left the barn.
His words were echoed by fellow conservative Armin Klein, who said Germans had become too selfish.
Hey, it’s all about mich
“We need to have the stiff upper lip courage to have sex and take the consequences,” like waking up sober in the morning to find out that was the Anti-Miss Universe you were hitting on.
said Klein, who has two children. “People concentrating on themselves, which has led to a life without children for many, has gone wrong.” Germany will have the world’s oldest population by 2035, according to a report in Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly.
Think your body parts are sagging now? Wait till 2035.
Posted by:ed

#7  Let's go, TGA. Get with the program.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-06-28 7:29:26 PM  

#6  Ed, but they can get both the pill and abortions (except for Ireland) through the national health services. This is the ultimate result of "pro-choice" policies, a long slow glidepath to extinction.
Posted by: RWV   2004-06-28 7:21:17 PM  

#5  The best mix for babies in a modern society is a combination of mild poverty, boredom, unsupervised social settings and the acceptance and some support of unwed mothers. Plus enough privacy to get away with it.

Anonymoose,
I think you just described Europe, so how come no bambinos? Though they don't seem to have a lot of privacy, but how hard is it to get out in the old Fiat for a little Shake, Rattle, and Roll?
Posted by: ed   2004-06-28 5:42:13 PM  

#4  The biggest factor in reproduction is economics. When a population's standard of living reaches a certain rising point, all of a sudden there is a *radical* drop in the number of births. Religion and culture really don't matter in the equation.
The best mix for babies in a modern society is a combination of mild poverty, boredom, unsupervised social settings and the acceptance and some support of unwed mothers. Plus enough privacy to get away with it.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2004-06-28 5:26:18 PM  

#3  Think we could import this program to the US? Seems like a good idea to me . . .
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-06-28 2:18:20 PM  

#2  Interesting is one way to put it. :)
Posted by: Shipman   2004-06-28 11:10:59 AM  

#1  This would be funny if it weren't so tragic. This is just recognition of a trend that's beensteadily accelerating since the introduction of the pill in the sixties. Gunter Grass wrote about it in 1980 in his book, Kopfgeburten, Oder Die Deutschen Sterben Aus (Headbirths, or the Germans are Dying Out. For all their foibles, the world will be a less interesting place when the Germans take their place in history alongside of the Visigoths, the Huns, and the Vandals, just one more tribe on the dustbin of history.
Posted by: RWV   2004-06-28 10:33:10 AM  

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