Spain has appointed it's first Minister of Sex, Edelmira Barreira whose
job will be to get people to have sex more in order to reverse the
country’s plummeting birth rate.
Spain has one of the lowest birth rate
among developed countries.The
country is faced with a population crisis, with fewer births than
deaths recorded for the first time last year.
Since 2008, the number of
births recorded in Spain has plunged by 18% According to experts, long
working hours and a culture of eating late at night and going to bed
after midnight are partly to blame for the nation’s sex famine.
Most Spanish women say they would like two or more children but in 2015
those aged 18 to 49 had an average of 1.3 children – well below the EU
figure of 1.58.
The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, appointed Barreira in the hopes that
she would take measures which would increase birth rates in the coming
years.
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