People who don't have sex or struggle to find a sexual partner to have children with will now be considered as disabled, according to barmy new guidelines set to be announced.

 

根据世界卫生组织颁布的一项“疯狂的”新标准，没有性生活，或者苦于找不到性伴侣来生儿育女的人们或被定义为残疾。

 

Until now, infertility¹ - the failure to achieve pregnancy² after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sex - was not considered a disability.

 

But now in dramatic move the World Health Organisation³ will change the standard to suggest that a person who is unable to find a suitable sexual partner or is lacking a sexual relationship to have children - will now be equally classified as disabled.

 

WHO says the change will give every individual "the right to reproduce".

 

Under the new rules, heterosexual single men and women and gay men and women who want to have children will now be given the same priority as a couple seeking IVF because of medical fertility problems.

 

But critics branded the new laws as "absurd nonsense" arguing that the organisation has overstepped the mark by moving into social matters rather than health.

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