Was the woman who claimed to be opening the worlds first "sex school" in Austria faking it?
In November Huffington Post UK, along with others, reported that Swedish-born "headmistress" Ylva-Maria Thompson had flung open the doors to a new learning establishment which had the goal of teaching its students how to be better lovers.
She said that anyone over the age of 16 could enroll at her Austrian International School of Sex (AISOS) in order to learn new sexual positions and "caressing techniques".
But it turns out that, in her words, it was too good to be true.
“I wasn’t surprised it got so much attention. Sex still sells,” she told Sweden's Resumé magazine on Monday.
“I think many in the media figured ‘if a story sounds too good to be true, don’t check it too carefully’. They wanted the story regardless,"
Ahem.
It has been reported that the sex school was in fact a publicity stunt by a Austrian group known as The Bird Base who want to raise publicity for the country’s low birth rate.