Re: "childless couple told to have sex" meme

From: Ray Recchia (rrecchia@frontiernet.net)
Date: Fri 28 May 2004 - 22:22:02 GMT

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    I thought this one sounded a bit fishy, and sure enough they are now claiming it is probably a hoax.

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

    I suppose it spread because it's about sex and because it reinforces stereotypes.

    Ray Recchia

    At 06:40 PM 5/18/2004, Keith wrote:

    >Interesting failure mode . . . . Maybe memes are more important than I
    >thought. Keith
    >
    >**********
    >
    >http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_957945.html?menu=news.quirkies.sexlife
    >
    >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.
    >
    >
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