janelane wrote:
] ] Sex is a subject which, because it has long been considered
] ] an inappropriate subject for public discourse in our
] ] society, is a particularly favorite topic of non-public
] ] discourse. We gossip about people who are having sex, we
] ] gossip about people who aren't having sex, and we gossip
] ] about people who are having too much sex. We titter about
] ] people who know too much about sex, and we chortle at
] ] people who know too little about sex.
] ]
] ] The latter point is well-represented in urban folklore,
] ] which abounds with tales of sexually naive adults who
] ] don't understand what sex is, have sex the "wrong" way,
] ] or don't grasp the rudiments of birth control. Thus we
] ] have tales of childless couples who discover their
] ] infertility is due to either a complete lack of
] ] intercourse or to the husband's mistakenly penetrating
] ] his wife's urethra (because no one ever explained sex or
] ] proper sexual techniques to them), couples who use
] ] prophylactics by placing them on the ends of bananas or
] ] broomsticks (because that's how condom use was
] ] demonstrated to them), and women aghast at finding
] ] themselves pregnant even though they've been consuming
] ] contraceptive jelly.
]
] Update on the German couple who couldn't conceive due to a
] lack of the proper education.
]
] -janelane

Sigh.............