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Does it not strike you as strange though that so many different nations / cultures are all seeing the same downward trend at the same time? There is something about it that feels like a biological imperative.



We have better things to do than hump like rabbits? We don’t need kids to work the farm, or to provide net positive muscle power input to the economy. We have machines for that.


> We have better things to do than hump like rabbits?

Correction: we still hump like rabbits, at much higher rates than before (welcome hookup culture) and broadcast it to the world for millions to watch.

We are simply not having children.


Actually hookup culture resulted in less sex, and married weekly church goers according to the existing data are having the most sex by far.


>higher rates than before (welcome hookup culture)

Got any source to back that up? All surveys I have seen point to younger generations having less sex, fewer relationships, and even just drinking less than their ancestors. Remember, the boomers were the "free love" hippies and then STDs became a serious concern, and we decided we should warn kids about consequences of sex.


We don’t need kids to work the farm

even if we did, kids are expected to go to school now. they changed from being a work asset to a cost center.




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