Conservative 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.”
His words were echoed by fellow conservative Armin Klein, who said Germans had become too selfish.
“We need to have the courage to have sex and take the consequences,” said Klein, who has two children. “People concentrating on themselves, which has led to a life without children for many, has gone wrong.”
Germany will have the world’s oldest population by 2035, according to a report in Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly.