Journal: News & Comment

It could be worse

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Following my little rant the other day about sex education, here is an extreme example (via Dave Winer) of what happens when people don't know enough about their own bodies:

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. [...]

A clinic spokesman said: "When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: 'What do you mean?' [They] were brought up in a religious environment [and] were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate."

And here I thought natural urges would always sort things out.

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