WEIRD STUFF

Woman still a virgin four years after marriage

A couple failed to conceive for four years because they didn't know how to have sex.

A medical expert has revealed that a married couple in their 20s -- whose names haven't been revealed in a bid to protect their privacy -- failed in their efforts to have a baby, because they didn't actually know how to have sex.

Obstetrician Liu Hongmei told China's Guiyang Evening Post: "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."

The married couple were regularly engaging in 'intercourse' and were facing outside pressures to start a family from their loved ones. However, their efforts to conceive were unsuccessful because they didn't actually know what they were doing in the bedroom.

Hongmei said: "Their family was giving them a lot of stress because of it."

The obstetrician initially looked at the couple's medical history to ascertain whether there was any health reasons as to why they would struggle to conceive.

The wife explained that their sexual experiences were "unusually painful", prompting the medical expert to suspect she might have suffered from some form of gynaecological condition.

However, Hongmei was ultimately shocked to discover that the wife was, in fact, a virgin and that the couple simply didn't know how to have sex.

As a result, Hongmei provided the duo with a sex-education handbook in the hope that it would help them to conceive.

Hongmei said: "Four years of marriage and neither the husband nor wife knew how to get pregnant. Couples so lacking in general knowledge are very rare.

"But it is not uncommon for people to lack or have misconceptions regarding sexual knowledge."

And Hongmei's approach ultimately proved to be successful, as the couple managed to conceive a few months after being gifted the sex-education handbook by the obstetrician.

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Woman declared dead now living 'second life'

A British woman claims she experienced "a feeling of extreme peace" after her heart stopped for 24 minutes.

Lauren Canaday was clinically dead for almost half an hour, after suffering a heart attack in February -- but she insists she no longer has any fears of dying, having already come so close to losing her life.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, Lauren explained: "I remember only a feeling of extreme peace. That peace stayed with me for weeks after I woke up."

Lauren admitted that death no longer holds any fear for her, having already survived a cardiac arrest.

She also confessed that she didn't hear or see anything distinct during the time she was unconscious.

She said: "I definitely don't fear death anymore.

"Despite not seeing anything distinct, I don't feel worried about it at all."

Lauren actually views her experience as a turning point in her life, explaining that her life before the heart attack was distinctly different to how she lives now.

Lauren -- who didn't see anything like a light or a tunnel, as other people have previously claimed - believes the heart attack marked the end of her first life and the beginning of her second.

She reflected: "I feel like my first life ended in February. And I woke up to my second life."

Lauren admitted that she now feels like an entirely new person, having been clinically dead for so long. However, she still has a constant reminder of her near-death experience, after having a defibrillator fitted in her chest.

Lauren -- who survived after receiving CPR support from her husband and paramedics -- said: "When people tell me I look well, it feels eerie. Because I don't feel like the same person."

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