Want To Get Pregnant? Fuck A Clown!

Boy, do we have some Science for you! Baby-in-tummy Science, to be precise. To the Holy Land:

[R]esearchers who studied 219 women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) discovered that women were more likely to become pregnant if they were paid a visit by a professional “medical clown” after the procedure. The numbers speak for themselves: 36 percent of the clowned women became pregnant, whereas only 20 percent of the un-clowned women conceived.
According to the study, led by Shevach Friedler and published in Fertility and Sterility, a medical merrymaker visited the fertility clinic regularly for a year. Half of the women studied were visited by the jester soon after they had received a fertilized embryo. Each time, the funny-bone tickler stayed for 15 minutes and acted through a set routine. As the Guardian reports:
The researchers found that, compared to women who came to the clinic on a “non-clown” day, those who’d had a laugh were more than twice as likely to become pregnant, when other factors such as age, type of infertility and the number of embryos transferred, were taken into account.

“Had a laugh?” Is that what we’re calling it now? I’m no scientist, but even I can tell you the meaning of this study: Somewhere in Israel there is an extremely fertile clown, and he’s not going to rest until he knocks the whole country up.

Photo by howieluvzus, from Flickr.