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.