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A married couple longing for a child have been informed they've been engaging in intercourse incorrectly for four years - explaining their inability to fall pregnant.

The duo, who have not been identified but are aged 26 and 24, asked for expert guidance after experiencing no success conceiving, despite having intercouse frequently.

However, concerns emerged when doctors established the wife remained a virgin. She subsequently acknowledged intercourse was "usually painful" for her each time.

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Obstetrician Liu Hongmei said: "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.

"Their family was giving them a lot of stress because of it," she added

While enquiring about the wife's medical background during the appointment, Liu was informed that the pair had relations regularly.

The wife also explained that the experience was "unusually painful" for her every occasion, though she endured it hoping to become pregnant.

The woman's indicators prompted Doctor Liu to suspect she might have suffered from some form of gynaecological condition.

Yet Liu said she was "shocked" when an examination confirmed the wife remained a virgin.

According to China's Guiyang Evening Post, Liu's "experience" prompted her to examine the woman's anus.

It was at that point the physician is reported to have learnt the couple had been incorrectly having anal intercourse for four years, accounting for their inability to conceive.

Doctor Liu reportedly provided the couple, from Bijie city in China's south-western Guizhou province, with a sex-education handbook each.

She also offered them "guidelines" before they were discharged.

The advice seemed to do the trick, as news of the wife's pregnancy arrived just a few months later.

They reportedly informed the now retired doctor they were finally expecting - by delivering 100 eggs and a live hen as gifts to her former hospital.

Liu 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."