As the web shrinks the world – the bizzare and interesting from the world end up straight in your in box. For me the high point of last week was two tales regarding sex. One from the west and the other from Africa.

The first story is about a married couple. Happy with each other, together for 8 years or so and desperate for a child. So they went to a fertility clinic. The doctors put them through a battery of tests and found no reason why they couldn’t have a child. Finally, they asked the couple – how frequently do you have sex. The couple looked at them blankly. Apparently they were from this deeply religious Christian background and didn’t know that sex was a pre requirement to have children – unless of course you were a Rishi from ancient times. Then looking at a woman was enough to get her pregnnat.

This is the “promiscious” west we are talking about here. And Germany is far more open about both sex and sexuality, than a UK. It is amazing that in today’s day and age you can find a couple who inhabit the same physical space, are deeply in love, married to each other and don’t know that you have to bonk to have kids. I am not quite sure whether i should appreciate such innocence in today’s world or laugh at the stupidity of the people involved.

The second story is from Zambia. And if it wasn’t so tragic it would be funny. Rather than paraphrasing it, i will just reproduce it full and hope that Reuters does not sue me for every naya paisa that I have.

LUSAKA (Reuters) – A 50-year-old Zambian man has hanged himself after his wife found him having sex with a hen, police say.The woman caught him in the act when she rushed into their house to investigate a noise.”He attempted to kill her but she managed to escape,” a police spokesman said on Friday.The man from the town of Chongwe, about 50 km (30 miles) east of Lusaka, killed himself after being admonished by other villagers.

The hen was slaughtered after the incident.

A whole lot of puns come to mind, and it will not be very ladylike to blog about them.