Snopes casts doubts about the Childless German Couple story

But they have "undetermined" under status.

http://snopes.com/pregnant/nosex.asp

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1163682
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1161254
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1159017
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1157532
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1156476

(and a snip from the Snopes page on this)

It has a lack of detail common to tabloid or spoof articles: The couple is identified only as a "husband" and a "wife" (with no quotes from either), and no name or title is provided for the article's single source of information, a university representative (he's merely an unnamed "spokesman").

The spokesman states that it was only after the couple "were subjected to a battery of tests and both were found to be perfectly fertile that we asked them how often they had sex." In-depth questions about frequency and nature of sexual activity are generally asked of couples well before any actual fertility testing is undertaken, in part for this very reason (i.e., nobody wants to run a battery of expensive tests only to find out that some external factor was responsible for the couple's failure to conceive — like maybe the couple is engaging in sex infrequently, and always at a time when the woman is probably not ovulating.)

The article includes some way over-the-top, buffoonish statements (ones not befitting a medical professional) based upon information supplied by the putative spokesman, such as: "We're not talking about retards here, but a couple who were brought up in a strict religious environment" and "The couple had read up about in-vitro fertilisation treatment but believed it was something to do with a 'turkey baster, a mattress and a woman standing on her head.'" (Would a couple so ignorant of the basics of sex and pregnancy really understand the concept of IVF?)

No one we contacted at Lübeck University (at least, no English-speaking personnel — my command of German is nicht so gut) had any knowledge of this story.

i have no doubt this kind of thing happens.

in fact i met a woman once who, as a young wife didn't realize that sex was behind the reason she was getting pregnant. she wasn't too smart about alot of other thing also....