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Letter: Strip off for success

Published 20 January 2001

From J. P. Kakebeeke

The illustration accompanying the article “Sex helps even if you’re having a
test-tube baby”
(9 December 2000, p 6),
unwittingly showed the root cause of the
problem quite clearly. Perhaps the couple in the picture would not need IVF if
the male removed his nether garments while attempting to father an offspring. In
countries where this “unfiltered” approach has already been tried for a few
years results have been better than expected.

Hagen, Germany

Issue no. 2274 published 20 January 2001

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