Dr. Love wants to help Singaporeans fire up their libidos

[dArKeR]

Bathtub tutorials and a baby-making contest on television? Why not, says Singapore's self-styled sex guru, Wei Siang Yu, nicknamed Dr. Love.

As the island-state grapples with falling birth rates, the flamboyant medical doctor is preparing to launch a midnight television talk show which will feature bathtub tutorials, hoping it can rekindle passions and encourage couples to have more children.

Wei told reporters the program will be launched in the second quarter of this year.

This will be followed in the third quarter by a reality television program called Dr. Love Superbaby Making Show in which couples from different nationalities will compete to be the first to conceive.

Wei's unique efforts to fire up libidos come after repeated urgings from Singapore's leaders for the affluent state's population of 4 million people to reverse the nation's reproductive slow-down.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/02/16/2003098971

[ProudGerman]

1. what, did Singaporans just stop having sex?

How exactly, does a birth rate drop to a level where population decreases?

Maybe I should volunteer to help alleviate the problem.

[camero]

2. Don't take this the wrong way

But as women won thier rights, the birth rate fell. Probably because more enter the work force.

http://www.newdream.org/conversation-arc/9909/msg00057.html

GROWTH IN WOMEN'S RIGHTS CORRELATES WITH DROPPING BIRTH RATES.

This correlation is shown by rating countries on an index of women's rights, looking at variables such as women's suffrage, wage rates, ability to own property, etc. In many countries where the birth rate is high, the burden of feeding and rearing children is placed on women-- and yet women often have little say in their own reproductive patterns (or in anything else). Slowing the birth rate requires not only educating women about their reproductive choices, but empowering them to make that choice for themselves.

Not a bad thing. The culture just is probably different.