Yep. When sex was the only fun thing to do after the Sun went down, people did more of it.

I mean, isn't it obvious? Sex becomes just one entertainment option among many, *including* more easily accessible fake sex

SimpleStacker

denlillaapan

 understand what it is about the mesmerizing screens that somehow, via messing with our minds and desires, result in a) having fewer kids, b) coupling up less.

I don't know either, but anecdotally a rejoinder I always heard growing up in 80s to a couple announcing their 4th or 5th child was: "Don't you two have a TV?"

I guess now we need to upgrade it to "Dont you two have a tiktok account?"

HealthAndFitness

econ

Birth Rates: The Defining Problem of Our Time (FT, Burn-Murdoch)

>I don't *quite* understand what it is about the mesmerizing screens that somehow, via messing with our minds and desires, result in a) having fewer kids, b) coupling up less.

I don't know either, but anecdotally a rejoinder I always heard growing up in 80s to a couple announcing their 4th or 5th child was: "Don't you two have a TV?"

I guess now we need to upgrade it to "Dont you two have a tiktok account?"