No sex in Lübeck?
posted on 19. May 2004 at 03:52 PM
Ananova: Childless couple told to try sex
Can anyone living in Lübeck or reading local newspapers confirm this story? Is this still happening in 2004? In Germany? Please, please, tell me this is made up.
Nothing in the papers in my press database (including Lübecker Nachrichten and Bild) since January 2004, neither in the press agency material. Two spelling mistakes in the name of the town -- I have some doubts about this story...
Dutch news site (which is mostly quite reliable) ran the same story monday. Unfortunately no source mentioned. Very funny :p Maybe someone wants to call the Klinikum and ask?
xlrq.com has already written a letter to the Klinikum. He's just as skeptical.
I think I found the original source -- it's The Mirror. The (May 18) story has several details not mentioned in the Ananova version. The author is Allan Hallan in Berlin who also wrote the tragic account of a man eaten by his pet spiders in Dortmund -- apparently not quite based on the facts.
The final one, I promise. :) Comments at Schockwellenreiter point to an article in the Medical Tribune which in turn refers to an article in the medical journal Gynäkologische Endokrinologie ("In one couple, besides oligoasthenoteratozoospermia, psychogenic erectile dysfunction was also present so that sexual intercourse had never even been performed."). So there is a factual core to the Mirror article (and its offspring), but most of it is embellishment and fantasy.
Let me see if I get this straight: last August, they published an article that discussed two couples, one of whom couldn't have sex due to an erectile dysfunction. From that, Ananova and the Mirror concocted a story about a couple that didn't think they needed to have sex?
From the beginning, this whole story struck me as the kind of silly rumor I would have expected Germans to circulate about the prudish Brits and Americans, not the other way around.
Well, the Mirror reporter Allan Hall seems to think lying is good for you. Maybe that explains it.
Snopes now has a page about this: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Pregnancy (No Sex Please, We're Religious)
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