Lots of couples have trouble getting pregnant, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. But one Asian couple had a truly shocking reason why the wife couldn't get pregnant, despite their best efforts. The biggest shock? After four years of trying, she was still technically a virgin!
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The unnamed couple, ages 24 and 26, have been married for four years and trying to conceive the whole time.
They were desperate to get pregnant, so they sought out professional help to figure out what they needed to do to become parents.
Despite having intercourse on the regular, nothing was happening. The wife also shared that sex was "usually painful" every time they engaged in the act.
Doctors were shocked to find out that medically, the wife was still a virgin, which opened up a lot more questions than they asked before.
"The couple were very young, the man 26 and the woman 24. They were very healthy, but, despite being married for four years, couldn't conceive. Their family was giving them a lot of stress because of it," obstetrician Liu Hongmei explained.
The revelation that sex was "unusually painful" for the woman led Dr. Liu to believe that she was suffering from some sort of gynecological disease. But that wasn't it.
Liu's "experience" led her to check the woman's anus, and that's when she learned that the couple had been having anal sex the whole time. No wonder she wasn't getting pregnant!
"Four years of marriage and neither the husband nor wife knew how to get pregnant. Couples so lacking in general knowledge are very rare," Liu said. "But it is not uncommon for people to lack or have misconceptions regarding sexual knowledge."
She sent them home with information on how to have sex, and they got pregnant very quickly thereafter.
