But in our free societies, where dating and romance are left to chance, we are one by one prohibiting it in the places where that chance might occur, and not replacing them with anything. Not at school, not at the workplace, not outside the workplace if you are in the same profession and there might be a perceived "imbalance of power"...
That doesn't eliminate everyone you meet and get to know, but it eliminates most.
That's not what I said.
I said high fertility societies strictly prohibit dating-like activities in daily life and limit it to pre-designated settings.
This can happen without sex seggergation in school.
Iraq's population also nearly doubled since 2003 (23m to 42m). Schools in Iraq have not been seggregated since forever.
So nobody was woke in the 80s? Feminism and homosexuality just sprang up out of nowhere in 2010?
Infact, that's exactly how high fertility societies operate. At least the Islamic ones, like Afghanistan for example, where the population doubled since 2001.
Fertility has been dropping since the 80s, long before anything to do with wokeism or meetoo or whatever.