UPDATE: OK, this may be fake. Here’s an item on Snopes that sounds suspiciously similar to this one. Any readers in Germany that can find a link to the original story that can be verified?
Even if it is fake, we still sex ed in our schools.
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On the other hand, with beliefs so wacky that they can’t even teach something so fundamental to their kids (if they should figure out how to do it), perhaps they’re better off not having any. Double cripes!
The birds and the bees
A couple from Germany went to a fertility clinic to find out why – after eight years of marriage – they were still childless. The cause of their trouble conceiving was an unexpected one.After eight years of childless marriage, the 30-year-old wife and her 36-year-old husband decided it was time to find out why they couldn’t get pregnant.
They visited a fertility clinic and the doctors ran some tests which indicated they shouldn’t have any trouble conceiving a child.
A spokesman for the clinic 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 couple now knows about the birds and the bees, and with some luck they will have a child in about 9 months.
I bet that was the best sex they ever had…and two minutes later they went again.
Were they raised on a stork farm? Maybe they were waiting for the eggs to hatch a human.
I’m sorry I don’t think this could ever happen in Germany in modern times.
They have what we would consider pornography on TV, nudity in commercials, uncensored sex discussion in teen magazines, complete with full nudity…I just dont see this happening.
http://tinyurl.com/yev8u4 — Here is the book in German on Amazon.de
There’s no way this is real. As said above, German teen magazines devote a couple of pages to sex-ed, and schools here have mandatory sex-ed classes. Home schooling, as far as I know, is not allowed, and the country is generally paranoid of religious sects.
On top of that, this thing reads just like a classic urban legeds. Instead of a FOAF, there’s another country. There’s not really enough information to google for specifics. I found the same story reprinted in German, but it’s just as vague. (No link, really annoying pop-ups.)
Perhaps it is hard for many to believe but people can miss learning things such as how to have sex. I watched a show where a sex therapist talked about helping a married couple who did not know how to have sex. I also am aware of many misconceptions about sex that many people have… i.e. what causes std’s. Most people do not talk about sex and the stuff they learn from porn is not nearly as informative as many are lead to believe.
John