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For ages, hotels have offered “romance” packages to couples looking to reignite the flame. Now, hotels have introduced something new: the procreation vacation (or “procreavacation”?).

Having trouble getting pregnant? […] Doctor Jason James says he often recommends fertility-challenged patients book a vacation. He says de-stressing with your spouse away from daily life can actually aid in conception. […] Hotels are introducing procreation vacation packages, offering everything from on-site sex doctors to age-old fertility boosters promising to hasten the pitter-patter of little feet. At The Westin at Our Lucaya Grand Bahama Island, couples can sip fertility-boosting pumpkin soup and down sea moss elixirs.

And I thought pumpkin soup was just a seasonal dish.

With European governments worried about an aging citizenry and minimal growth putting their pension systems at risk, perhaps this will be the next great policy prescription from Brussels.

But the name “procreation vacation” has got to go. That’s even worse than the mancation.

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