{"id":327,"date":"2004-05-19T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/05\/german_couple_finds_out_stork_isnt_real\/"},"modified":"2004-05-19T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T12:46:07","slug":"german_couple_finds_out_stork_isnt_real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/19\/german_couple_finds_out_stork_isnt_real\/","title":{"rendered":"German Couple Finds Out Stork Isn’t Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this story in Briefing.com this morning and thought it was a joke:<\/p>\n

\nA childless German couple finally found out why they weren’t able to conceive — they had never had sex.<\/a><\/p>\n

Doctors at the Lübeck campus of the University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein (search) in northern Germany described the case in a medical bulletin, according to Ananova.com.<\/p>\n

After eight years of marriage, the 36-year-old man and his 30-year-old wife went to the campus’ fertility clinic to figure out what was wrong.<\/p>\n

Doctors gave them a battery of tests and were baffled — both husband and wife were healthily fertile.<\/p>\n

Then came the important question.<\/p>\n

“When we asked them how often they had had sex,” said a clinic spokesman, “they looked blank, and said: ‘What do you mean?'”<\/p>\n

He went on to explain that each of the pair had been brought up extremely religiously and had never heard of the birds and the bees.<\/p>\n

“We are not talking retarded people here,” the clinic spokesman said. The two “were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate.”<\/p>\n

The man and wife are now being given sexual therapy. The clinic is trying to find out if there are other couples in the area who could use a refresher course in human biology.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update:<\/b> Snopes seems to think this story is an urban legend and\/or hoax<\/a>. So maybe my original thoughts were right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this story in Briefing.com this morning and thought it was a joke: A childless German couple finally found out why they weren’t able to conceive — they had never had sex. Doctors at the Lübeck campus of the University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein (search) in northern Germany described the case in a medical bulletin,… Continue reading German Couple Finds Out Stork Isn’t Real<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":119,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/kraftwerks_tour_de_france_2003\/","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":0},"title":"Kraftwerk’s Tour De France 2003","date":"July 28, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Kraftwerk has come back with a new album, Tour De France Soundtracks. 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