Husband confesses to Slate that he couldn’t get wife pregnant for the dumbest possible reason

Time to take off the con-dumb.

A husband has revealed the insane reason he and his wife struggled to get pregnant for years — setting off a social media firestorm of mockery and bewilderment.

The anonymous writer’s confession to Slate’s “How to Do It” sex column that his doctor plainly told the couple they weren’t suffering from infertility, but simply needed to “stop wearing condoms when having sex.”

“I’ve never felt like more of an idiot than when walking out of that office,” said the man, who wrote under the pseudonym “Not Rising to the Occasion.”

A man confessed he and his wife had to visit a fertility clinic doctor to learn they shouldn’t be wearing condoms if they were hoping to conceive a baby. Chinnapong – stock.adobe.com

The advice column rapidly spread across social media, eliciting a slew of reactions, most of which included pure disbelief.

“Did his wife not know either????” one bewildered X user wrote.

“I genuinely worry about how humanity made it this far,” wrote another.

“Maybe keep wearing the condom man,” said another user — a sentiment that was reiterated by several others.

The man claims he hailed from a country with poor sex education. gamjai – stock.adobe.com

Many also questioned just how real the story could be — and wondered if the anonymous writer was trying to pull one over on the digital magazine’s readers.

“Not Rising to the Occasion” claimed he and his wife of four years had been trying to conceive for nearly a year without any promising results — despite being young and healthy.

“We went to a fertility clinic to see what was wrong, and well, that’s when the problems started,” the man, 30, wrote.

The man claimed he and his wife hail from another country outside the US that has poor sex education and drilled the necessity of wearing a condom while engaging in any sexual activity into their heads as a means of avoiding disease.

“In what was probably only a few minutes but some of the longest of my life, the doctor at the clinic explained how condoms actually function and that we’d been failing to get my wife pregnant because I was wearing a condom while we did it,” the man wrote.

Bizarrely, the mishap wasn’t the root of the man’s problems that led him to Slate’s advice column — even after ditching the rubber, the couple continued to struggle in the bedroom.

“The problem is that I’m now getting erectile dysfunction when we try to have sex. I can sometimes get it up for a minute or so, but then it wilts back down. I don’t know if it’s the feel without a condom being different or just tending to think about my massive embarrassment at the doctor’s office, but I’m not performing when I try to have sex without a condom,” the man wrote — asking the columnist for advice on overcoming the mental block.

Slate’s “How to Do It” suspected the struggle was psychosomatic and suggested that the man and his wife explore medications for erectile dysfunction.

That would mean, however, returning to the fertility clinic where the doctor had to school the couple on how to procreate.

“The more you know, the better off you’ll be as you navigate this situation,” the columnist said.