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We haven't achieved parthogenesis, so a stem donor is needed, and these stories always seem to have a bit of narrative to them.
The people behind this seem to thing that birth control was just invented a few years ago, that people stop having children at any time they economy isn't booming, the only thing remotely touching on this is the one womannoting lower sexual activity for teens.
No where in this is noted that men are checking out. A couple years ago 63 percent of men under 30 have chosen to be single. I suspect it has grown since then. The femosphere has narratively framed this as a male loneliness epidemic, in a faux expression of sympathy.
Meanwhile, men have framed this are claiming that they no longer wish to be involved in a system that to many looks like any interaction with a woman is akin to handling a hand grenade with the pin pulled. One wrong word or move, and you can wreck your life. So they avoid the move. They see that the divorce rate is above 50 percent, which doesn't include the men in unhappy marriage.
What is a real issue is that as the modern narrative for women is like something out of "Sex and the City", where you don't even think about marriage until you are in your mid-30's, and experienced man men to make certain you can find Mr right. Problem with that is that when men hit that age, they think more with their brains than their genitals. In addition to the general disrespect, with fertility on the downswing at that age, many women will be looking at IVF.
And yes, Birth control has been around a long time, especially if you consider condoms. The first birth control pills were approved in the US in 1960. That's 65 years ago! It's a stretch to blame that.
Back to the male loneliness epidemic. I'm in a campus environment. When I was a student, we were all yencing our brains out, and having a lot of fun.
Today, a sort of sexual apartheid has developed. Here are young men and women at their peaks, and there is little interaction.
But here's the interesting observation. The people presumably suffering - the men? They don't look unhappy at all. They hang out, mess with each other as men do, Monkin about. The women on the other hand don't look all that impressed by their own situation.
When I was in college, you would see men and women interacting, holding hands hugging, kissing, enjoying each other's presence. Today, it is almost jarring if you see a man and woman holding hands or interacting. This is weirdly un-natural.
side note: I was married by the time I was in college, so didn't have the "college experience"
Point is, you can swing the pendulum too far, and lets face it, when normal interactions become sexual harassment, when even marriage is problematic, it is not illogical for the gender that is claimed to be always at fault to do a simple risk/reward assessment, decide there is virtually no reward, only risk, then lean out. It is also not surprising that the group who ended up causing this problem frame it as a loneliness epidemic. This is a problem men cannot fix, and with the narrative that it is not possible for a woman to do anything wrong, it is going to be a generational issue to repair.
Since the usual crowd will downmod me, all me incel, and drop to coward status to do so half the time, might as well let everyone know that despite being married for a long time, and not young, I'm still sexually active, and the wife initiates it half the time or more - I don't really keep count. So have at me as you usually do.