Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Childless and uninterested in starting a family but hearing from his friends that he should, Karl sets out to learn why people have children. In Japan, he happens past a Tokyo restaurant where he finds a live turtle awaiting its fate as someones meal; to save it, he takes it in and keeps it in his hotel rooms bathtub, pondering the responsibility of caring for the creature before releasing it in a river under a bridge. He attends a traditional fertility festival in which huge phalluses predominate, encounters a mascot dressed as a phallus, and assists other men in carrying a large phallus on a sedan chair, opining that the testicles really deserve more credit for fertility than the penis and convincing a woman that she should not be so sure that she wants to have children. He also goes to a doctor to have his sperm tested, and is informed that he is quite capable of fathering children. He then travels to Indonesia, where he visits Bali to help at a natural birthing center and is awed by witnessing a birth; he also babysits an infant girl for a young couple, becoming frustrated when he cannot stop her from crying. His next stop in Indonesia is Sulawesi, where he spends time with the Bajau people, "sea gypsies" who spend very little time supervising their children and allow them to go out to sea to fish by themselves; Karl joins some of the children on a fishing expedition, and displays little concern for their safety and welfare during the trip even when they submerge and disappear for long periods. Finally, he visits the United States, where he hires two adult dwarf actors to pretend to be five- or six-year-old children while spending a day and night with a young couple in the Los Angeles area who are considering having children; the experience makes the couple decide to put off starting a family.. }
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- The_Moaning_of_Life shortsummary "Childless and uninterested in starting a family but hearing from his friends that he should, Karl sets out to learn why people have children. In Japan, he happens past a Tokyo restaurant where he finds a live turtle awaiting its fate as someones meal; to save it, he takes it in and keeps it in his hotel rooms bathtub, pondering the responsibility of caring for the creature before releasing it in a river under a bridge. He attends a traditional fertility festival in which huge phalluses predominate, encounters a mascot dressed as a phallus, and assists other men in carrying a large phallus on a sedan chair, opining that the testicles really deserve more credit for fertility than the penis and convincing a woman that she should not be so sure that she wants to have children. He also goes to a doctor to have his sperm tested, and is informed that he is quite capable of fathering children. He then travels to Indonesia, where he visits Bali to help at a natural birthing center and is awed by witnessing a birth; he also babysits an infant girl for a young couple, becoming frustrated when he cannot stop her from crying. His next stop in Indonesia is Sulawesi, where he spends time with the Bajau people, "sea gypsies" who spend very little time supervising their children and allow them to go out to sea to fish by themselves; Karl joins some of the children on a fishing expedition, and displays little concern for their safety and welfare during the trip even when they submerge and disappear for long periods. Finally, he visits the United States, where he hires two adult dwarf actors to pretend to be five- or six-year-old children while spending a day and night with a young couple in the Los Angeles area who are considering having children; the experience makes the couple decide to put off starting a family.".