Posted on 06/27/2004 9:08:15 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
..Politicians are urging German men to have more sex to boost birth rates or risk being labeled “limp” abroad, a newspaper reported on Friday.
Johannes Singhammer, a member of parliament and father of six, said Germany’s aging population needed to produce more offspring to sustain its overstretched pensions system.
“Children are our future,” Singhammer told Germany’s Bild newspaper. “Germans need to work more on that again in bed. Things mustn’t get to the stage where German men are scoffed at abroad for being limp.”
Germany will have the world’s oldest population by 2035, according to a report in Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly
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How many Germans do you know???
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