Re: "childless couple told to have sex" meme

From: Chris Taylor (christ@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 31 May 2004 - 14:21:43 GMT

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    And given the Mirror's recent humiliation after they caused untold harm with their publishing of those 'photographs from Iraq' (for which they should be prosecuted, potentially for manslaughter, whether or not they are representative of truth, i.e. something _like_ this _may_ be going on so it's okay to publish them), I think anything in that pathetic rag should be classified as fiction anyway. Faction is an extremely dangerous thing (although the original story made me chuckle, so thanks anyway Keith -- no criticism of you intended).

    Cheers, Chris.

    Ray Recchia wrote:

    >
    > 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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