abstinence education: when it works, it really really works.

[sisyphusshrugged]

I got nothing. [comment here.]

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?".

Comments

[mrdankelly.livejournal.com]

I am become skeptical. Even for Germans.

[drownedinink.livejournal.com]

In my studies of European monarchs and royal families, there are more than a few cases where two married royals, both raised in heavy isolation, apparently didn't know how to do it right (i.e., didn't know premature ejaculation was a problem). There's a theory that that's the reason why Louis XVI didn't get Marie Antoinette pregnant until a few years after their marriage...he was too nervous to get it all the way end or one of them or both of them didn't know what to do with themselves.

All that said, though, this is screwed up.

[aberrantangels]

I got it via edg and tws_support. I told my dad about it, and he wondered not just what these two were told about the facts of life, but what the woman was told when she hit menarche.

I didn't tell him my reaction, because I'd have had to explain it (let me know, anyone who wants it explained), but I imagine it must have been a lot like what the White Dog Teacher tells the schoolgirls in Adrienne Kennedy's play "A Lesson in Dead Language" ("Lesson I bleed. The day the White Dog died I started to bleed. Blood came out of me. I killed the White Dog and that is why I must bleed, even to the base of Pompey's statuë").

I've heard this one before

[(Anonymous)]

This tale is right out of Catch 22, except the doctor wound up with a black eye.