Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds
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#2Could this be from progress in pornography?
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#3Are we headed into a "Children of Men" scenario?
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#4I've noticed over the last 20 or so years that men in the West, in general, appear increasingly effeminate.
I've also noticed that a lot of male pop stars have really high voices.
I've long suspected these observations are more than cultural. Recent studies seem to back this intuition.
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#5Is this result beyond dispute? No chance it's just a problem with the measurements/methodology?
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#6Could this be from progress in pornography?
If this were an important factor, I would expect to see the same drop in non-Western countries. Porn is global.
The data doesn't show a significant decrease outside the West.
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#7I was surprised to see Brazil, Chile and Mexico categorized as 'Non-Western countries'.
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#8BPA, birth control/estrogen in water, and increased obesity rates would be my guess.
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#9Anxiously awaiting the first comment on the feminizing effects of soy...
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#10I was surprised to see Brazil, Chile and Mexico categorized as 'Non-Western countries'.
Yeah I saw that too... I don’t understand. Is Western a political definition?