"Auspicious Eggs"

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Satire on the Roman Catholic Church, which practices the Sacrament of Terminal Baptism (killing those incapable of reproducing) and requires everyone to copulate when most fertile. The church has a copulatorium that is used for the Sacrament of Extramarital Intercourse with anyone who is fertile if one’s partner is not.