The Infertility Crisis

WHAT KIND OF CUCKOLD HAS ONLY 40 MILLION SPERM PER LOAD? WTF?? TAKE YOUR VITAMINS AT LEAST ZINC, MAGNESIUM, CALCIUM. I HAD MY SPERM TESTED I'M AT 700 MILLION SPERM AND STILL ASCENDING

ZERG RUSH THOSE EGGS YOU DUMB FAGGOTS

Eat a handful of pumpkin seeds daily, it'll help a lot.

1) peepz get smart, either from up-from-bottom, or from well enough to do family that was smart enough to send spawn to get learnt.
2) smart peepz then realize a certain amount of money is needed to do stuffz, "the standard of living." (this is the issue, what do they want to do? what standard of living will they settle for).
3) smart peepz with enough monies, do what they want, have spawn (start spawn at step 1), buy house, etc. and can still stay single/or married and STILL party like billy barty.
4) smart peepz with not enough monies, usually no spawn, no house, etc. in order to party like billy barty.
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1A) Dumb peepz do not care about anything and spawn recklessly.
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How to fix that?

Good stuff, user.

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Yeah well,
So how the fuck do you fix that?

So? Eugenics is good. We don't want low T males to reproduce.

I legit have figured out how to mass produce Human Children in bags.
I have figured out a way to grow the Umbilical Cord in a bag….
I would like to Share, but I want Money.

They put birth control in the water the all-natural way; agriculture runoff and flushing pills

Having a cia phone in your pocket all day haa something to do with it as well.

From a strictly biological point of view male infertility isn't nearly as dire an issue as female infertility and there's a looming female fertility crisis that's going to be brought on in the coming years by constant exposure to wireless networks, especially 5G and the standards after it. Male infertility in most cases is transient (ie. fertility can be restored, and in many cases quickly and easily) but female infertility is often irreversible because once the eggs are damaged it's game over. You just wait and see what happens to Generation Z, bathed in WiFi quite literally from the womb through adulthood.

So you're saying you have the knowledge to do that yet lack the skill to use proper grammer and proper sentence formimg?

Most people carry theirs in their pants, which is perfect to fry those sperms.

Soybean oil is used to make plastic and ink if it's cheaper than petroleum.

OP is a faggot what else is new

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Stop eating kiked food and start lifting. That will get the balls working again. And zinc.

BPA to be more specific, you're right.

They say non-BPA plastic actually leeches more shit. I mean everything leeches shit, copper, iron, stainless steel from China, even glass can if it's old enough, I imagine enameled iron shit is about the same since they moved production of it to China.

Anons, no joke, check out Enclomiphene citrate

Double your test and increase your sperm count while lowering your serin cholesterol without raising estrogen levels in 14 days with almost no side effects. Spend like 2 hours reading journals and double blind tests and then fix yourself. The kikes have been suppressing this one big time. The drug is the trans isomer of Clomid and it stimulates the hypothalamus by plugging the estrogen receptors to trigger negative feedback to prevent production while simultaneously telling your pancreas to tell your gonads to produce more test and sperm. It's also an oral with no liver side effects. Enclomiphene citrate has been shown to slightly lower igf-1, but only barely past the statistical threshold.

Here's where I've been getting mine,
nootropicsource.com/shop/solutions/enclomiphene/\

but I'm about to make a big purchase on Alibaba for like 1/8th the price.
Here are some articles because I know that you low test faggots are to lazy to do a google search.

endocrineweb.com/professional/endoscan/201604/abstract/enclomiphene-citrate-improves-hormone-levels-while-preserving-

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5009465/

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155868/

pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Enclomiphene_citrate

clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01534208

might as well save the time and eat a bullet the old fashioned way. only disease and sickness comes from chinka. they have lead and mercury contamination in everything

I'll take my chances. You can probobly get it from India on the darknet if your clever enough.

I archive every single thread which I read onto my own computer. I don't want to have to sift through broken links. Two mirrors are better than one.

Write up a law BANNING all dual-citizens from EVERY level of government. "Defense Against Foreign Influence Act". Might help get the people out that would be against passing laws to help protect the health of our citizens. I don't think dual itsnotrealian / american citizens will vote for protect us from anything, 5G, immigration, mandatory organics, etc.

It's simple. Western men are fapping way too often. When they are tested there is fuck all sperm to go off and it's watery as fuck because they had a 6 hour hentai fap sesh the night before. This explains why other cultures had better sperm counts, because they aren't fapping as much as we are. It also explains falling counts over the years, because of the fall of Christian culture, the rise of degenerate culture which promotes fapping and the increase in internet access which gives easy access to porn.

hahahaha

Could be a manipulated study to be used in the future to import shitskins. I don't believe these things at face value, had zero problems having children.

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I know what you mean. I use to like sciencedaily but I take their content with a grain of salt after seeing through their bias. They had a lot of articles with leftist subtext.

Not to mention there is THIS, which is markedly suspicious.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170726110954.htm

"Significant ongoing decline in sperm counts of Western men"

Source:
(((The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)))

1. They're making it up as a Kalergi excuse.
2. They know it's going on and knew what to look at because they're actually a drive force behind the factors.

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There is also the quality of males being tested. For example, if this study tested mostly urban soyboys at universities and neglected a sample of rural males with physically demanding occupations, it will skew heavily toward low numbers.

WiFi routers are far too weak to cause any significant heating, and thus tissue damage, even though it's very near the frequency of microwave ovens.

You're still unironically a newfag.

Fuck off nigger, OP provided great sources and salient points. What have you contributed? Jack shit other than muh archives. As if any thread up right now is more detailed and worked out as this one. No wonder pph has diminished and threads hardly reach 150 posts anymore.

Throw some vitamin D3 in there as well user. Start with at least 4000iu.

i just refuse to believe these studies that blackpill that only westerns would have dropping counts
take a look at the polution in india or south america and therir diets
if either of these two factors would be it than those places would be hit way harder than the west with abundant diets and water treatment facilities

i can think of 3 reasons to skew the results: in third world countries only the elite get medical screening, too much fapping in the west or the birth of a generation of cucks fathered by cucks that in any other time and place on earth would never have gotten a wife
in the latter case that shit usually gets sorted out quickly, natural selection is quite efficient at removing those who don't breed from the future and only leaves those with a strong desire and ability to spawn offspring

What crisis? One healthy man can fertilize thousands women. I don't see a problem at all.

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Then by the second or third generation, the genepool has shrunk and poor gene bearing females will have their traits expressed, interbreeding would be more difficult to avoid, and birth defects will be common. This is what happened to the Arabic countries that promoted harams.

Nah.

You're fucking retarded and know nothing about genetics, so don't breed at all.

You know how hard it is to get adequate amounts of zinc in a regular diet? Or how important zinc is for mens test level? Get the fuck oitta here nigger.

Zinc can poison your stomach if you take too much of it by pill form, it's only bioavailable by 10-15 mg by tablet dosage at a time anyways.

I don't disagree but its still hard to come by in a modern diet.

That's bullshit,I got one ball and my cum is still not even watery even after jerking off 3 times faggot so I doubt you end up with watery cum from jerking off too much with two balls.

Most people are lucky if they get 5mg a day. Its best source is animal lovers and the juice that seeps from rare cooked meats.

Livers* not lovers

Can attest to this. One time I took zinc when I was sick on an empty stomach, had painful dry heaving for about 3 hours.

Make sure you eat something before you take zinc.

All a low sperm count means is that it might take a little longer for your wife to get pregnant.
The real reason for demographic winter is that millions of White women are choosing to murder their children in utero instead of giving birth to them.

All europeans are related to Carl the Great.
It really just takes a small group of men.

Here is a brief report I did on Microplastics and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals:

Added to plastics in order to increase flexibility and strength, present in almost all types of commercial plastic [1]
Ultraviolet Radiation (sunlight) breaks down the plasticizers over time [1]
Resulting runoff is hydrophobic, and easily absorbs into fatty tissues [1]
Mimics hormonal compounds in animals, namely estrogen and testosterone, earning the title “Endocrine Disrupting Chemical” (EDC) [2] [14]
Most famous example is BPA in baby-bottles causing defects, though “BPA-Free” products contain more disruptive plasticizer compounds [3] [14]
Microplastics found in over 83% of water globally, and 94% of U.S. water sources, including rivers, lakes, and drinking water [4] [12] [13] [14]
90% or more of plastic particulate in the water supply originates from Africa, Asia, and South America, due to lax recycling and screening regulations [5] [14]

Significantly higher rates of female fish, causing concern for population stability in the form of contaminated egg supplies, and intersex fish. Eggs showed signs of defect, along with mature female fish attempting to avoid male fish, along with decreased drive to defend eggs and young [6] [8] [9] [11]
Male fish exhibit reduced sexual characteristics, including frequent growth of tumors in sexual organs, fatal liver damage, decreased sperm production coupled with mutated sperm, despondency, inability to mate, and decreased sexual aggressiveness [7] [8] [9] [11]
A compounding effect has been observed in fish populations of South America and Canada, whereupon “mutated” eggs beget further abnormalities after each generation [9] [10]
Meat sold for consumers contain microplastics, with over 67% of species sold in California containing measurable quantities at market, along with plastic particles being present in fish intended to be consumed in rivers and lakes [15] [16]
Chicken & Beef destined for market has also been found to contain hormonal disruptors and microplastics, most notably in the skin [17]

Isolated Canadian lake saw introduction of xenoestrogenic compounds to the Fathead Minnow population [10]
Young fish were unable to feed for themselves, adult fish did not reproduce to sustainable levels [10]
After 3 years, the population had gone almost completely extinct [10]
Upon removal of xenoestrogenic infusion, population was able to rebound to previous population levels within 2 years [10]
Short lifespan of the minnow was able to show the potentially catastrophic effect of hormonal disruption in populations with a small generational gap [9] [10]

Research is hesitant to make a definite ruling on the effects that endocrine disrupting chemicals have on humans, possibly due to ethical concerns, lack of funding, or difficulty in maintaining neutrality
Effects of BPA on pregnant/nursing mothers and babies are well documented (and regulated), but no studies exist past infancy [3] [14]
If analogous to fish, human populations would see increased rates of cancer, earlier puberty, difficulty in conceiving children, lessened sexual characteristics in males, heightened sexual characteristics in females, greater incidences of genetic defects, greater rates of intersex folk, abnormal sexual behavior, malformed sexual organs, and greater rates of antisocial behavior. This effect would only worsen with each passing generation [2] [3] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [14]

Currently, there exists no method to screen endocrine disrupting chemicals from drinking water.
Plastic particulate is a pervasive trend, showing no indicators of slowing or stopping
Microplastics released from any and all plastic material, with detritus in freshwater being particularly susceptible to breaking down into anthropogenic hormonal compounds, due to the effect saltwater has on dampening EDC’s[1] [20]
Coupled with brazen pesticide use and lack of concern in developing nations, large amounts of chemical waste is transferred into water supplies [18] [19]
Requires an international effort to solve an ethical dilemma: should “we” be allowed to dictate what developing nations can do with their water supply and industrial waste, knowing that it is doing irreparable harm to ecosystems throughout the planet?

"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
- Dr. Theodore Kaczynski

References on next post.

[1] Bosker, T., Santoro, G., & Melvin, S. D. (2017). Salinity and sensitivity to endocrine disrupting chemicals: A comparison of reproductive endpoints in small-bodied fish exposed under different salinities. Chemosphere, 183186-196. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.05.063
[2] Söffker, M., & Tyler, C. R. (2012). Endocrine disrupting chemicals and sexual behaviors in fish - a critical review on effects and possible consequences. Critical Reviews In Toxicology, 42(8), 653-668. doi:10.3109/10408444.2012.692114
[3] Yang C. Z. et al. Most Plastic Products Release Estrogenic Chemicals: A Potential Health Problem That Can Be Solved, Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Jul 1; 119(7): 989–996. Published online 2011 Mar 2. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1003220
[4] Kosuth M. et al. “SYNTHETIC POLYMER CONTAMINATION IN GLOBAL DRINKING WATER.” orbmedia.org. Orb Media. Web, May 16, 2017.
[5] Laurent C. M. Lebreton et al. River plastic emissions to the world's oceans, Nature Communications (2017). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15611
[6] Weber, A. A., Moreira, D. P., Melo, R. C., Vieira, A. C., Prado, P. S., da Silva, M. N., & … Rizzo, E. (2017). Reproductive effects of oestrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals in Astyanax rivularis inhabiting headwaters of the Velhas River, Brazil. Science Of The Total Environment, 592693-703. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.181
[7] Li, F., Yao, L., Sun, W., Jiang, Y., Li, Z., & Zhai, Y. (2017). Histopathological Liver and Testis Alterations in Male Half-Smooth Tongue Sole ( Cynoglossus semilaevis) Exposed to Endocrine Disruptors. Journal Of Coastal Research, 33(3), 678-683. doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-15-00244.1
[8] Saaristo, M., Tomkins, P., Allinson, M., Allinson, G., & Wong, B. M. (2013). An Androgenic Agricultural Contaminant Impairs Female Reproductive Behaviour in a Freshwater Fish. Plos ONE, 8(5), 1-7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062782
[9] Söffker, M., & Tyler, C. R. (2012). Endocrine disrupting chemicals and sexual behaviors in fish - a critical review on effects and possible consequences. Critical Reviews In Toxicology, 42(8), 653-668. doi:10.3109/10408444.2012.692114
[10] Kidd KA, Blanchfield PJ, Mills KH, Palace VP, Evans RE, Lazorchak JM, Flick RW. (2007). Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104: 8897–8901.
[11] Munakata A, Kobayashi M. (2010). Endocrine control of sexual behavior in teleost fish. Gen Comp Endocrinol 165:456–468.
[12] Yonkos L. T. et al. Microplastics in Four Estuarine Rivers in the Chesapeake Bay, U.S.A., Environ. Sci. Technol., 2014, 48 (24), pp 14195–14202 DOI: 10.1021/es5036317
[13] Moore C. J. et al. Quantity and type of plastic debris flowing from two urban rivers to coastal waters and beaches of Southern California, Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (2011). DOI: 10.5894/rgci194
[14] Teuten, E.L. et al. Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife. The Royal Society of Publishing 2009, 2027-2045
[15] Lusher, A.L.; McHugh, M.; Thompson, R.C. Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of pelagic and demersal fish from the English Channel. Marine Pollution Bulletin 2013, 94-99
[16] Rochman, C.; Tahir, A.; Williams, S.; Baxa, D.V.; Lam, R.; Miller, J.T.; Teh, F.; Werorilangi, S,; Teh, S.J. Anthropogenic debris in seafood: Plastic debris and fibers from textiles in fish and bivalves sold for human consumption. Science Reports 2015, 5
[17] Law, A. S., Wei, X., Zhang, X., Mak, N. K., Cheung, K. C., Wong, M. H., & … Wong, C. C. (2012). Biological analysis of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in animal meats from the Pearl River Delta, China. Journal Of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 22(1), 93-100. doi:10.1038/jes.2011.36
[18] Mandiki, S. M., Gillardin, V., Martens, K., Ercken, D., De Roeck, E., De Bie, T., & … Kestemont, P. (2014). Effect of land use on pollution status and risk of fish endocrine disruption in small farmland ponds. Hydrobiologia, 723(1), 103-120. doi:10.1007/s10750-013-1641-3
[19] Baldwin A.; Corsi S.; Mason S. Plastic Debris in 29 Great Lakes Tributaries: Relations to Watershed Attributes and Hydrology. Environmental Science & Technology 2016, 10377-10385
[20] Mato, Y.; Isobe, T.; Takada, H.; Kanehiro, H.; Ohtake, C.; Kamihuma, T. Plastic Resin Pellets as a Transport Medium for Toxic Chemicals in the Marine Environment. Environmental Science and Technology 2001, 318-324

Hee-hee, here, have some fluorinated microplastic water and soy :^)

You wrote this? Fucking hell, user, this reminds me of the board back in 2014 when we actually had discussion that 80 IQ niggers couldn't have. I'll ask this of you and of things regarding the OP in general:
Do we have any hard, scientific evidence that this shit is being done ON PURPOSE? If we don't, do we have any hard, scientific evidence that these problems are being IGNORED on purpose?
I already know about the "Jaffe Memo", but I want some ties FROM the memo to actual documents or statements made about white genocide vis a vis THESE specific issues.

Nobody is researching the effects on humans, because you could just handwave all the evidence away as "well that's just their unique lifestyle and doesn't represent the population." You can study fish, since you can raise them from egg to death and control all aspects and see how they change from generation to generation in a matter of years. In 10 years, a human is still just a little kid. How would you test it over MULTIPLE generations of humans? We don't have the hormonal data going back even 60 years, much less 160. Sure, all signs point to humans today being different hormonally than our parents and grandparents, but there isn't objective, statistical data to support it, only inferences. Humans are so complex that you would need thousands of participants to voluntarily agree to fuck up their bodies in the name of science, starting at an embryonic level.

I remember reading an article about men living near the great lakes, and those who ate more lakefish had lower sperm counts than those who abstained from the fish. The fish had elevated levels of EDCs in them from microplastics, so you could draw the link from EDCs to lowering sperm count, but it was just one study.

I mean I fully believe that the entire planet is being poisoned by this shit but I don't know a solution for it. Reverse osmosis can clean MOST of it out of drinking water, but rain contains it, lakes rivers and groundwater contain it, it's in literally everything.

There is research being done that shows that physical abrasion of plastics releases microplastics, so that even wearing clothing with plastics in it has the potential to poison you.

You could argue that by the refusal to study the effects of EDCs on humans, the problem is being systematically ignored by way of ethics committees and funding, which are hugely affected by the powers that be. Pharmaecutical and plastics companies have a lot of money at stake over this, and if they were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be harmful, the ENTIRE way that contemporary humans manufacture products would have to be changed. Everything is made with plastics. Everything. To that end, the problem itself isn't necessarily being planned, but rather the reaction to it.

Cum inside a whore, no matter how 'infertile' you think you are, the bitch is going to pop up a kid and make you pay child support, I don't know what the fuck they have, but sluts are usually super fertile.

It's their evil thot magic

Artificial wombs are the solution to the fertility problem

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Tis true, I am a slut for white cock but definitely not a dude. Checked but incorrect. Black kid punched me in the tummy while in grade school and now my eggs don't function properly. At least the mud blood is dead though, lol the fucking loser found an exit bag while in a "gang war."

So I guess not technically born sterile but still close enough.

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Did you just do what I think you did there?

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Pretty sure more children are murdered by condoms even before been conceived.

Put down the alcohol and form a coherent sentence please.

the solution to the woman problem, you mean.
we can install them in our robot waifu's, and flip them on whenever we want to have our genetically-perfected sons.

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It is almost never cheaper than petroleum for these purposes. The overwhelming majority of soy is used for animal feed and in processed food. Soy ink doesn't even need a majority of soy to be classified as a "soy ink".

Does that account for the aging population? Because if 40 years ago the average age was 40 and now it's 60 (both made up numbers) of fucking course sperm counts will be lower now.

You mean that soy filled weed addict porn addict low T city boys have their tiny balls not functioning properly ?

Who cares, the real problem for whites' fertility is the age of the mother. Women's fertility window starts closing at 30, but most of them are still "building their career" and are "not ready to settle" at this age. Thanks (((feminism))).

For having 1 or 2 kids, starting at 30 is ok, but this is far from enough to compensate for all the cat ladies out there.
And by the way, immigrants do up to twice more children, and their generations are 50% faster (20 years vs 30 years), meaning they breed 2 to 3 times faster in some countries.

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Inbreeding in the Religion of Cuck™ic world has nothing to do with an extremely small minority of elite men having harems. It has everything to do with first cousin marriages

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Damn, no kids to get chopped up or raped by niggers. Whyyyyy!!!

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If you don't see the value of reproducing, you weren't that smart to begin with

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(checked) Always doubt the narrative user, always.

This user knows exactly what I'm talking about. Every time anything gets published through any form of (((media))) ask yourself these five things.

1. Who wants to publish this?
2. Why is this relevant?
3. Who is supposed to see this?
4. What is the reaction/conversation about this supposed to be?
5. Who are the (((researchers)))?

I can't wait for pre-modernism to really take foothold in the coming years so we can reclaim science and discovery for the truth seeking vehicles they are

WOW WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT?

Take it easy, Huxley.

Why isn't India similarly affected then? You don't need to respond, I'm familiar with the Weston Price talking points.

Wrong, both wifi and phone radiation mess with your DNA at strong enough concentrations
vid related (scroll down):
emfscientist.org/

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Don't forget that microwaving food actually destroys the nutritious information in it and might cause you to develop cancerous HIV cells. It's best to deactivate the bad radiation by wearing lead-lined clothing or AT LEAST aluminum foil whenever possible, especially when going outside.

It's muh plastics dude, we have plastic everything

ON the contrary, I put my 5ghz 2.4ghz router directly on a table surrounded by pretty much dead orchids and 2 have had flowers on them for a bit over a year now. This was my proof that wifi is not harmful.

I giggled.

Yeah this appeal to the WHO signed by 1 gorillion scientists sure seems like nothing
emfscientist.org/images/docs/International-EMF-Scientist-Appeal-2016.pdf
(pic = link)

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So how do we contaminate turd world water supplies with this, Zig Forums?

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Wow look at all these highly advanced countries such as Bahrain or Armenia. Also these respectable and noteworthy organizations such as "Pandora".

What's stopping you from starting a committee on the phenomenon and funding medical lobbyists in Washington to contract research from the FDA?
I in the meantime do not use cheap plastic bottles and carefully watch what I eat

I want to just reiterate what I think Musk is trying to say

He claims birth rate is negatively affected by education and positively affected by religion. Perhaps the reasons are more culturally than anything else though. More educated countries tend to be more liberal and while sexual liberation may on paper seem good for birth rate, I think not, because I believe it makes sex trivial. The trivialization of sex is what leads people to want to have much less of it because the urgency isn't there. Especially when masturbation is easier.

Religion teaches us to avoid masturbation and that adultery is a sin. For the religious man sex is not a trivial thing. So it creates a bigger sense of urgency and indeed moral duty to procreate. That's just what I believe though.

This

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If there was no notable decline, then how could they have had a smaller sample size?
Also it's not really a problem, since artificial insemination, fertility clinics, and sperm donors are a thing.

I only read archives. I will not look at any links posted on this site.

We need to somehow meme our women into wanting to make (white) babies again. I've been pondering this for a while now, but so far I haven't had a breakthrough in terms of how.

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i don't know about that, but i'd say the bigger issue is that a lot of women think it's normal, or even desirable having children pushing forty.
or worse, they think not wanting kids is normal, and that they will be able to retire like their boomer grandparents did, and that the welfare system is totally not FUBAR.

Good documentary on this topic.