Americans are reproducing at a rate that is too low to replace themselves. At this rate, Americans will go extinct.
It’s like the situation in Italy where Catholics have become so adept at violating the Church’s prohibitions on birth control that they’ll be gone soon.
I figure the only way to save Italy for the Italians is for the Church to permit – nay, mandate – birth control. If there’s one thing Catholics have learned over 2,000 years, it’s that their highest spiritual calling is to disobey their infallible-ish Pope. Only if the shepherd requires birth control will his flock abandon the pill, the IUD, condoms, the rhythm method, abstinence, premature withdrawal, morning-after pills, and morning-after prayer.
They would reproduce like rabbits. They would rebirth the Romans, equipped with Ferraris rather than chariots.
Back to America. Our only hope to avoid extinction due to our failure to be fruitful and multiply is to open the borders. Democrats have done just that. Not for the purpose of saving America, however, but raping her. But that’s another column.
Today’s column examines the why. Why are Americans failing to procreate?
The immediate answer is the obvious one. Studies show that Americans are having less sex – at least with one another – than they used to.
In my day, it was a favorite pastime. And the journey was as much fun as the destination. I remember in high school a pom-pom girl got pom-pommed. I wondered if this conception was of the immaculate kind but finally concluded it wasn’t. I was left muttering, “They went all-the-way???”
Geez, I’d never even gotten to second base, but it wasn’t for lack of effort.
The girl in high school went somewhere and had a baby and never came back. I didn’t think less of her, and she didn’t think of me at all. Maybe it was my trombone. Or the slide rule on my belt. (Those aren’t metaphorical references.)
OK, enough of history. Here are the two reasons Americans aren’t engaging in procreating sex anymore.
It’s because young men (I use the term loosely) have two attractive alternatives. Better than even a pom-pom girl.
One alternative is to shack up. Feminism has been great – for men. Men no longer need to make commitments, promises, marriages, or babies. Feminism taught women to just let them have it for free. Feminism taught women that they should be semen receptacles, because that makes them “liberated.”
Smart selfish men don’t disagree.
The other reason is internet porn. Over 60% of men view porn regularly and over 10% view porn daily. The percentages are greater among young men. Men can get whatever sex they want, with women way out of their league, with a few clicks. Why bother with making promises you won’t keep, picking up the dinner check, putting on deodorant, setting up a 529 Plan, etc?
I know of one smart, beautiful, charming young lady who wanted a family. Instead, she got a husband whose idea of a romantic evening is to go down to the basement alone with pot and porn.
Porn is a bad thing, but not just because it’s often presented in a way that’s degrading to women (though that often is the case). The bigger reason it’s a bad thing is that it undermines marriage and commitment and, thereby, precludes families and children.
There’s probably not much we can do about internet porn. The internet is too diffuse and too difficult to regulate. And it will get worse. Imagine in a few years when we see the merger of AI, the internet, virtual reality, and porn.
But there’s something we can do about feminism. I’m all for equality of opportunity in the workplace. But let’s re-examine whether the sexual aspect of feminism as currently formulated is good for feminine-ism. Or good for society.
the Aspen beat 
Feminism is not about the rights of women .. feminists are silent while men compete in women’s sports..
Hamas moslems targete women, young girls, and babies… feminists are silent..
Alphabet establishment feminism as we remember it died after it went on a suicide mission to save the ultimate misogynist pig, Bill Clinton. After that, ordinary women who weren’t into the movement for far-left Democrat politics moved on. What was left festered in academia until it reemerged as the gender insanity we see today. There is no honest women’s movement about women today. And you see what happens now to even powerful women beyond reproach like Camille Paglia or J.K. Rowling when they dare say obvious things, like “People with penises who rape are men”.
One of my catch phrases since the ’90s has been, “At what point do we declare victory in this ‘war on women’ I’ve been told we are conducting?”. I agree; this was largely a gift to men, freeing them from responsibility and self-inflicted by alphabet feminism.
’50s woman meets a modern feminist; is she better off: https://twitter.com/BritMartinez/status/1565528155909144576
As for what porn has done to boys and men, I wholly agree. I’ve seen what it’s done to many and it’s just sad. It shouldn’t be a surprise that unsettled courtship rituals, rules and expectations upset by angry feminism made establishing good, lasting relationships difficult to impossible, and boys defaulted to the cheap and easy porn in the basement as the seemingly rational alternative. The end result are men and women who don’t know how to relate to one another. There’s no way a real woman can (or would want to) live up to the expectations and fantasy met by porn. The result is that “loneliness” is now considered an international crisis requiring government intervention. (God help us all on that!)
I live in a college town, and see a lot of lesbian couples out and about. And I don’t blame them switching teams considering that the pool of potential mates is dominated by of failure-to-launch beta-soy-boys that our culture has engendered over the last few decades. Just who finds that attractive?
And as long as we’re discussing cultural extinction, let’s throw in the early sexualization that the left is now imposing upon children upon sentience. The next generation is being taught that sex is now just a thing that one does with anyone or anything and nothing else matter. You can even swap body parts if you are so inclined, and being so inclined is even hip and there’s now an established infrastructure to help you on your way. Oh, and many of those treatments will leave you sterile should you ever come to your senses and change your mind later.
Western civilization had a good run.
And swapping body parts is free if you enlist, thanks to Biden. “Taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.” – Tori Richards, investigative reporter, Washington Examiner, March 10, 2021 07:00 AM.
We have separated sex from reproduction; we have separated sex from marriage. We have separated marriage from children. And we have, in the name of personal fulfillment, created a world where marriage itself has become disposable at the whim of the partners (who at this point do not even have to be man and woman).
In the early 1900s the much reviled Margaret Sanger (an anti abortion nurse) battled the authorities to allow married couples to enjoy sex without the fear of constant pregnancy. Back in that day the only legal way a man could gain access to a woman’s body was to be married to her. Further, the divorce laws were very protective of children; virtually unheard of except in extreme cases. It was actually illegal to dispense even information about birth control.
At this point, men are coming to the conclusion that marriage is a bad bet. Women, it seems, are engaging in shallow relationships while their youth and beauty are at their peak. Then, as beauty often fades, the chances for marriage also fade as the men seek younger women (if they seek women at all)
No. We are going extinct because if you marry up a Western woman, you will most likely get a fat narcissist slob who thinks she’s a 10, who has blue hair and a hog ring in her nose, and if she gets her panties in a wad she will divorce you, take half your stuff, your children, and turn them against your. You would have to be a lunatic to marry in the West, and we ain’t no lunatics.
Your disappointing love life has made you so angry that you can’t see reality. Not many women in the real world are fat narcissistic slobs with blue hair and a hog ring in her nose. Go back to the basement, bud, and don’t come back to my site.
Add to all that, we are also aborting large numbers. We should make unwed pregnancy illegal AND ban abortion (with the usual exceptions). Then the penalty for an unwed or unwanted pregnancy would be incarceration for one year during which the mother would be housed in comfortable housing where she can receive proper nutrition, counseling, medical care and free tubal ligations afterward, if desired (required if it’s problematic pregnancy number two). The male partners should also be incarcerated for a year, during which they are offered free vasectomies if it’s pregnancy number two (or more). They also receive free education, food, counseling, etc. etc. etc. No more sports for them either.
At the end of the pregnancy the woman/girl is given the option of keeping the baby or giving it up for adoption.
Oh yes, everybody involved must take DNA tests.
With estrogen in our water supply, are we feminizing boys, too?