The Australian: On Fertility. (18 and Over Only)

(Please be advised, there is nudity and graphic depictions of sex in this post.)


Good Morning!

Kumo is studying like mad now-a-days, learning about the intricacies of Foreign Exchange trading. As a result, my posts will be a little slow in coming.

Please forgive me in advance.

I'd like to share this excellent article entitled Sex Revolution Robbed Us of Fertility.

Sex revolution robbed us of fertility

Angela Shanahan | September 15, 2007

OVER 13 years as a columnist for The Australian and other publications I have received many letters.

But I have never received one like this.

It was written in response to a column I wrote a few weeks ago on sexual imagery in advertising.

But coincidentally it arrived just after the Pope's remarks this month about the seemingly obvious link between selfishness and our inability to produce children.

The thirty something writer cut through the demographic babble about the fertility crisis and heartbreakingly encapsulated something that is staring us in the face.






(Pope Benedict XVI)


Despite the media's discomfort, the fertility crisis in the West is a moral problem and, of course, only moral leaders such as Pope Benedict XVI have the guts and authority to enunciate it.

The truth about declining fertility is not all that complicated. It is the inevitable result of a so-called sexual revolution that broke the nexus between sex and having children, and has skewed our relationships, particularly marriage, forever.

The author is right on the money.

What she doesn't say, however, is that the sexual revolution was devised, BY MEN [1][2], and advocated, BY FEMINIST WOMEN, for the specific purpose of destroying Western civilization. It should be noted that this is all part of a masterplan that is over two thousand years old.

And they've done a masterful job, as this article by the Excellent Howard Center demonstrates.

I should also point out that the idea that we as a society have to embrace total sexual licentiousness on the one hand, or a completely closed, sexless, and frigid society on the other is a totally false one.

There is ample room for a traditional, family first culture that still has a healthy appreciation of sex.





In Japan, for example, we have a long tradition of sex and sensibility. As we can see in their pillowbook, the Shijuhatte, the very fertile ancient Japanese had no qualms with erotic expression.








Moving to India, we can see that the art of love is very well developed, and the Indian nation managed to build strong family networks that have served them well for thousands of years.

Erotic masterworks of Indian origin include the Kamasutra and the Ananga Ranga.







The Chinese too, with their strong tradition of family and morality, have a long history, and familiarity of things sexual, as their ancient system, the Tao seems to suggest.


It is becoming increasingly clear that we as a people need to come to terms with our sexual expression, and seek out a healthy, and manageable balance. As the Greeks would say, "Nothing in Excess: Moderation in all things."

The Australian continues:

What the media coyly refer to as private morality -- also known as sexual morality -- is having all too public social consequences.

On average, women in Europe will now only bear 1.5 children each, and in some places it is down to 1.2. The enlightened West can't produce enough children to fuel its economy or maintain its culture.

The enlightened West isn't the only society that is suffering from terminal illness. The once fertile island nation of Japan is dying, just as we are.

The Chinese too are beginning to manifest the same symptoms.

The Indian nation, with the passage of the notorious 498a law, among other Leftist feminist measures, is starting to feel the pain. Their suffering is but a foreshadow of what is to come, unless they act decisively.

The common theme is that the governing elite of these nations has decided, in varying degrees, to accept the poisonous philosophies of Marxism and Feminism.

The way of feminism is the way of death.

Getting back to the piece:

In western Europe nothing will change this short of some great and terrible upheaval, such as another war. No amount of economic fiddling with family tax rates, no amount of child care or incentives for women to work, not even the threat of cultural extinction as a result of mass migration from Africa and the Middle East, will change it.

In fact, despite its tragic cultural effects, mass migration is probably the only thing that will demographically save Europe, as it has saved the US: the only country in the developed world that fully reproduces itself, courtesy of its Latino population.

Shanahan continues:

The Mexican American birthrate of about 3.3 is higher than the birthrate in Mexico, despite Mexican Americans being a poor group in every way.

The reason for the higher birthrate among Mexican illegals is fairly simple... can anyone say Anchor babies?

Moving on:

This proves something that sociologists know but don't say: cultural factors are much more important for fertility than economics.

And in sociologist-speak, culture is code for things such as religion and our sexual mores, including our marriage patterns, or what the aridly secular West will timidly go as far as calling our values.

So what are these values that are a prerequisite for stable societies that can at least reproduce themselves? The most important factor in fertility is marriage. Late marriage and failure to marry is the biggest single factor affecting fertility in the West.

Bingo!

Where people don't marry and marriage as an institution is devalued, with serial relationships replacing marriage (not to mention weird permutations such as gay marriage), societies suffer declining fertility.

Even if women want children, because women's fertility is finite as my correspondent points out, the emotional stress of serial non-marriage plays havoc with the possibility of partnering for life.

It is a terrible catch22. But as my correspondent also rightly bemoans, so far almost all the discussion about fertility and marriage has been about women, as if their desires and motivations were the only factor.

A lot of truth here. However, our author is a little misguided. It is not a catch 22.

Women are human beings with equal worth before The Holy One. Women have the ability and the capacity to make their own decisions. Ultimately, blame must be assigned to women themselves, as they are legally and morally responsible for their own choices.

However, I do recognize that very powerful outside forces have acted upon them. In essence, all of us, men and women alike, have been deceived.

So then, I assign blame, in order of most to least responsible:

1) Powerful men, and subservient feminist women who lobbied and brainwashed the gullible masses

2) Leaders in business, religion, and government. These are the people we trusted to look out for us, and to act in our best interests. However, our religious leaders, our politicians, our arbiters of law, and our corporate leaders have betrayed all of us out of cowardice, fear, and greed.

3) Women themselves, because, as stated earlier, they are the ultimate keepers of sexual and marital life. It is illegal and immoral to force a woman to mate or marry against her will, and rightfully so. Hence, she is responsible for making the decisions that not only affect her, but affect all of society. So then, if we are having issues with a decline in marriage and childbirth due to rampant divorce (which is initiated by women in the majority of cases), abortion (again, women have sole jurisdiction in this area), and promiscuity, then women must be prepared to accept their liability in this matter. A woman always has the right to say NO, after all.

4) Men, because many of us remain ignorant of what is really going on, and because many of us aided, and continue to aid, abetted and continue to abet, feminism and all of the cultural degradation that comes with it. We excuse feminine bad behavior, and we allow women to use and abuse us. And worst of all, we refuse to acknowledge our own worth as makers and keepers of the most artificial of enterprises, civilization.

Lets keep it moving:

However, studies done in the late 1990s in Scandinavia, where almost 60per cent of births are ex-nuptial, discovered a much stronger connection between the attitude of the man in a cohabiting relationship, as to whether a formal marriage eventuated, than the attitude of the woman.

Cohabiting men were found to be far more hesitant than women to formalise the relationship. Furthermore, this pattern holds true even in relationships that have already produced children.

Among the childless, men seem to fear that marriage will push them into more of a provider role. They harbour strong doubts about the ultimate value of a relationship -- whether it will be lifelong -- and are less likely than women to yield to normative pressure from parents. What exactly was the word the Pope used: selfish?

This is much more a picture of reluctant youthful grooms being dragged to the altar than of reluctant New Age feminist brides not wanting to be tied down with an uneven share of the household chores and child care, which is what feminist academics claim is the motivator for the new non-marriage relationship.

In fact, it emphasises how little our sexual expectations have changed -- because women still want stability, marriage and children -- but, at the same time, how badly the new sexual norms are treating women.

Who now quotes with approval the original shallow feminist rhetoric, when women thought that armed with the pill they would hold all the cards, that they would not be tied down and would be free to act just like men? The experiences of women such as the one who sent me that letter belie all that propaganda.

Instead, many women are fooled into a series of unfulfilling relationships, becoming empty vessels for sex. Says my correspondent of these relationships: "I thought I was offering myself for marriage." Instead, having given away their most precious asset, their fertility, many women have played right into the hands of men...

So close, and yet so far...

I utterly reject the claim that men are being selfish, and that women are being victimzed. As with a lot of things in life, it's not that simple.

Yes, there are men that have no intentions of getting married. But what our author doesn't understand is that there is tremendous pressure, from the highest levels of religious, political, and commerical organizations to make marriage a figurative, and sometimes a literal deathtrap from a man. A man with any intelligence who is living in the Western world realizes that there is nothing to be gained from marrying the thoroughly brainwashed Western woman, except divorce, heartache, loss of children, property, and reputation, and so forth.

Marriage is a proposition for suckers, and men are getting wise to that game.

The Marriage Strike is on, and for damn good reasons that our author has failed to address.

But she is right about one thing.

Male fertility and drive are the initiators of all life, on a philosophical and a mundane level. Man's sex drive is a constant and insistent force, whereas woman's sex drive is both weaker and more variable [aa][bb]. Anyone who is familiar with gay people, for example, knows that in the main, two men together results in a boosting of sexual energy and libido, while lesbians do not display the same kind of behavior.

The ancients knew this well, and they believed that children were of the father, and that the mother was the sacred earth that nourished the man's lifegiving seed. Even our modern day search for the origins of mankind, identity and genealogy is traced most easily, and accurately, through the father.

So then, I argue that as soon as the irrational restrictions that have been imposed upon men have been repealed, and that the male Thumos, is acknowledged and respected once more, then women will have their families and their children, children will have their fathers and their mothers, society will have its workers and citizens, and the world will be a better place.

But until these wrongs have been righted, expect the decline of the West, and the global economic and cultural concept that it has championed for decades. If we don't seriously analyze the issues and make rapid, positive, and much needed change, then the Sun will set on Western idealism, for all time.

Kumo out.

(This post has been mailed to The Australian.)