German Childless couple told to try sex: DUH!

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Re: German Childless couple told to try sex: DUH!


hold on here; what do you think 'happened' before our predecessors, millions of years ago learned to communicate verbally; and the myriad species on this planet who do not have schools with 'basic sex' on the 'phys-ed' curriculum?

Nonsense! They were 'socially' retarded by their upbringing.

Sounds like the bush demographic......

WOW!!! Did they just fly in from Mars?

Shhhhhh.....don't anybody tell them anything. Maybe they'll die out.

That story has to be bullshit. How is it possible that they didn't know where babies come from!? Come on.

They were waiting for the Stork to make a soft landing.

Is this a joke, I don't catch it?

NO, I think it's possible. They were probably really sad about all those wasted years. Bush is to blame.

Ve haf vays to do dis ting, und if you obey der lessons, you get mit der baby.

I remember sometime back when I worked at admitting in a hospital - or when I was a medical assistant - prior to more
years in the field later.. let's say on the early side, I learned, and I think it was at the reservation desk (I assigned the hospital beds, my wee job for three days a week then (what, was I, 18? but serious, trust me, serious)

So, I heard of a couple where the woman han not had her hymen broken, this discovered when they came in after something like five years, to see why she couldn't have children. (I am thinking 19, I don't think I knew hymen at eighteen, as a word)

I think the situation that I remember was no joke, was a true one.

I can allllllllllmost relate, in that in the early and mid fifties I had really strange (looking back now) instruction. I was taught by my homeroom teacher when I was fourteen that pleasure in marriage is a sin.

No WONDER I turned out this way.

So, all these years later, I can begin to imagine a couple like that. Hard, I admit it is hard.

Snopes doubts that this is true -

As far as we can tell, this recent version of the story originated in the 18 May 2004 edition of the UK newspaper The Mirror and was picked up from there by other news sources, including UPI. The article looks to be either a spoof or a hoax ?- the type of story one would expect to find in a supermarket tabloid ?- not only because it repeats a common urban legend motif, but also because:
 It has a lack of detail common to tabloid or spoof articles: The couple is identified only as a "husband" and a "wife" (with no quotes from either), and no name or title is provided for the article's single source of information, a university representative (he's merely an unnamed "spokesman").
 The spokesman states that it was only after the couple "were subjected to a battery of tests and both were found to be perfectly fertile that we asked them how often they had sex." In-depth questions about frequency and nature of sexual activity are generally asked of couples well before any actual fertility testing is undertaken, in part for this very reason (i.e., nobody wants to run a battery of expensive tests only to find out that some external factor was responsible for the couple's failure to conceive ?- like maybe the couple is engaging in sex infrequently, and always at a time when the woman is probably not ovulating.)
 The article includes some way over-the-top, buffoonish statements (ones not befitting a medical professional) based upon information supplied by the putative spokesman, such as: "We're not talking about retards here, but a couple who were brought up in a strict religious environment" and "The couple had read up about in-vitro fertilisation treatment but believed it was something to do with a 'turkey baster, a mattress and a woman standing on her head.'" (Would a couple so ignorant of the basics of sex and pregnancy really understand the concept of IVF?)
 No one we contacted at Lübeck University (at least, no English-speaking personnel ?- my command of German is nicht so gut) had any knowledge of this story
The Mirror hasn't responded to our inquiries yet, but we'd be quite surprised if this report turned out to be anything but a fictional bit of humor.


http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/nosex.asp

My ex wife was for many years a delivery room nurse and there were several cases where women came in to deliver babies not knowing until labor began that they were pregnant. This would seem to be a much more obvious condition. So if that can occur, I can belive that it is possible a couple might be so ignorant as to not to know sex was a requirement.