Why Less Sex Is A Problem In Denmark And There Are Drives To Make The Danish Do More Of It

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and her children Prince Christian and Princess Isabella pose with Danish singer Basim (R) before a dress rehearsal of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest at the B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen, May 8, 2014. The competition's grand final will be held on May 10. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

What is the biggest problem that the Danish face today? Lack of enough sex! Low sex drive has led to plummeting birth rates, which is why schools and daycare centers in a Danish town are facing closure. Citizens are being requested to have more sex and raise birth rates, according to thelocaldk.com.

In Thy, a small town in northwestern Jutland, people were warned that childcare centres and schools may stop existing or merge with nearby schools due to less children who could study in them. The local institution signed an agreement with Thisted Council, and residents agreed to have more children in the next four years, reports rtnews.com..

As part of the deal, Thisted Council consented to keep the institutions open only for the next four years if parents did indeed create more children, according to Daily Mail. Meanwhile, politicians too have been asking the area's estate agents, banks and civic institutions to keep residents in the area and prevent them from moving away. "It's cooperation, and not just with the parents. We need to get the falling birth rates turned around," Thisted Council spokeswoman, Ulla Vestergaard, said on Thursday, according to rtnews.com.

The statistics are interesting. The birth rates are dropping, and a number of women plan to have children when they are older. The Local.dk says that the average age of becoming a parent for the first time is only 30 years, five years older than it was in 1970. About 20 percent of Danes never become fathers, 12 percent of women are either childless, or don't have the number of children they wanted to have, according to the fertility awareness organization, Dansk Fertilitetsselskab. In 2012, the national birth rate was documented at 1.7 children per couple.

There have been drives earlier to encourage young families to bear children. In October, the Danish Family Planning Association (Sex & Samfund) said that it will come up with a special program to teach students that women's fertility begins to plummet in their late 20s. Examining sex education for older students shows that it is all about how not to have children. Hence, there will always be a focus on prevention along with the use of contraceptives and the option of abortion. Thus, there is little knowledge of fertility and pregnancy, according to Sex & Samfund spokesman Bjarne Christensen.

Interestingly, a local travel agency, Spies Rejser Travel, even launched a competition in March this year to coax young people to have sex, promising three years of free baby supplies as well as a child friendly vacation for anyone who can prove that they got a baby during a vacation through Spies! The travel company is trying to encourage the families to conceive in order to save the country. Some research shows that Danes have 46 percent more sex during vacation. Hence, as more sex pulls up the chances for more children, it is possible to call for a "romantic break to save the future of Denmark," reports The Washington Post.