] 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

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Pregnancy (No Sex Please, We're Religious)