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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Tory Shepherd

How to reverse declining birth rates? The guy from Jim’s Mowing has a theory and it’s … unusual

Jim Penman stands next to a Jim's Mowing sign
Jim's Mowing founder Jim Penman is standing for the Libertarian party in November’s Victorian election. Photograph: supplied

Limiting sex could lead to more babies, the man behind Jim’s Mowing says. Sex, drugs, parties and social media have blunted humans’ dopamine responses, Jim Penman argues in a new book. That has led to less interest in faith, community, marriage and producing potentially “boring” children.

“Scientific interventions may become necessary” to turn around the resulting fall in birthrates, he writes in The Birth-rate Crisis: the Hidden Catastrophe in the Global Decline.

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