Seriously? I've never heard anything like this and I grew up near an area where there were a lot of Amish.

aMISH sEX pARTIES

well-known and possibly common practice in some of these communities to pay non-Amish men to come in and impregnate their wives. Supposedly they pay between something like $300 and $500 for it as well… which seems crazy to me, but hey, I’m just telling you what I heard. Anyway, apparently the “catch” (well, one of them) is that the husbands won’t leave you alone with their wives, so you’re going to have to get a strange Amish woman pregnant while her undoubtedly stern and disapproving husband watches over your shoulder. God, talk about a strange situation. But hey, some people might really get off on it, who knows?

and, not exactly the same thing, but quite randy anyways.......

Rumspringa: Amish Teens Venture into Modern Vices

Couples form and head off into the darkness. Some petting goes further than exploration, and this night one of the girls who earlier walked that country lane loses her virginity. Another partygoer becomes pregnant; several weeks from now, when she realizes it, she will simply advance her wedding date so that her child, as with about 12 percent of first births among the Amish, will be born before her marriage is nine months old. This evening, as well, a few female partygoers will bring boys home, and, with their parents' cognizance, spend the night in "bed courtship," on the girls' beds but "bundled" separately.

Edited March 10, 200719 yr by regfootball

i bet ann coulter would look ravishing in an Amish get up.

funny Ann Coulter comment

Edited March 10, 200719 yr by regfootball

Now that I think about it, I can see a logical basis for it. The Amish are a very closed community and their numbers aren't large in any given area. So, the hazards of too much inbreeding is very real. If they brought in some outside DNA, it would be a benefit to their community.

Edited March 11, 200719 yr by usonia

I live in Amish Country Ground Zero, and I've never heard of this. I agree with usonia, however, about the inbreeding thing. It's a danger to Amish culture.

Croc, now I am sincerely confused.

I don't care what academia teaches.

Traditional conservatism, that being puleoconservatism, in other words the 'far Right,' does not, in any way, espouse that 'one control all' - a major tenet of fascism.

Huh??

Nothing on the internet matched the keyword "puleoconservative" but did you mean "paleoconservative" instead? Because I read up on that...and yea...on the political spectrum they wouldn't be any further right than the current Republican party...and would probably be a little bit left due to not supporting a continued militaristic expansion. "The far right" can be in reference to a lot of things, but in terms of the political spectrum the paleoconservatives most certainly are not "far right."

Let me draw you a picture to explain the political spectrum:

L--------------------|--------------------R

C^..................D^^R..................F^

C refers to Communism, D refers to Democrats, R to Republicans, and F to Fascists. The | denotes the center. In American politics, our two-party system is really two flavors of center. Go to Europe, and you will see that there are a lot of actual "extremists" that actually are far-right and far-left.

Look, at this point, I'm going to point you to this article for further reading as it seems your experience with the political spectrum has been limited to the melodramatic rhetoric of American politics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum

Read the above explanation, and I'll be happy to continue this discussion on American politics.

I live in Amish Country Ground Zero, and I've never heard of this. I agree with usonia, however, about the inbreeding thing. It's a danger to Amish culture.

this is not just urban legend, i don't think. i'm pretty sure it was reported in the local major paper, too.