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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by dwaltrip on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:27PM (#37805717)
As far as I can tell, it's one of the more robust sociological correlations that has been established worldwide. Fertility rates are dropping on every continent, and the drops are strongly correlated with economic development. See links below, they seem pretty damning.

And yes, it begun in the second half of the 20th century, but I don't think that makes it spurious.

I wouldn't be surprised if western cultural influence played a meaningful role, but I can't imagine that explaining the entire phenomenon.

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility (see the graph at the top)

* https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#total-fertility-ra...

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034075/fertility-rate-w...

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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by BlueTemplar on Sunday October 08, 2023 @06:55AM (#37809434)
Is it a bad thing ?

As you might know, Malthus was quite concerned about the issues of overpopulation. His solution was to educate women. This seems to be working surprisingly well !

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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by boppo1 on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:55AM (#37819463)
>His solution was to educate women.

Really? I never knew this! Can you expand on his rhetoric at all?

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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by BlueTemplar on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:19PM (#37822755)
Well, that too short comment of mine might be slightly disingenuous, considering what you might have thought I meant by this, but here's an overview :

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aehr.12250

I seem to remember that he practiced what he preached (not only as the first ever professor of economics, but also as a pastor), and has founded at least one school for women, but annoyingly I can't seem to find the source any more ??

Of note also : by the end of the 19th century the (neo-)Malthusian feminists had already embraced ideas that he disagreed with like contraception and for some even abortion.

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