I believe that sexual attractiveness, health, and fertility are directly correlated. When someone is neutered psychologically or physically, this will effect their sexual attractiveness. Since the US has become sexually androgenous over the the past century, we are beginning to see its effects on people’s sexual preferences.
While part of the decrease in sexual identity is due to how people behave, part of it is due to inability to reproduce. Artificial estrogen is wrecking havoc on the male reproductive system. Women are not unaffected: they are beginning puberty much earlier.
One new trend that has probably only occurred in modern times is that people are voluntarily neutering themselves. They’re even paying money for the procedure. While the people plan on being able to reversing the process, it is still a startling trend. It probably would have been unimaginable to people in ages past.
- Men are getting more vasectomies. In Germany there is even a black market for them as several comments in this discussion show. The government is afraid of the falling fertility rates and (unsuccessfully) trying to force people to reproduce.
- Women are ingesting chemicals and artificial hormones which make them infertile: birth control pills. This is common knowledge and the prevalence of this practice has even affected our water supply.
Better sensors have revealed that trace amounts of pharmaceuticals, including narcotics, birth control, antidepressants and other controlled substances, are in the drinking water and in U.S. rivers, lakes and streams.
While I do not know the effect of sterilization on mens’ sexual triggers, it definately has an effect on women’s preferences. This article details how the men women have been attracted to have changed since the 1950s. Contraceptive pills were first introducted in the 1960’s, so this 50 year trend could be the effect of the pill. In the 1950’s and 1960’s the male “sex symbols” were very masculine and rugged. They have become ever more effeminate since that time.
Over this time period, the marriage age gap between marriage partners has been decreasing as well. It is very difficult to separate cause and effect here but the results seem self evident: America is moving towards an androgenous society. Men are effeminate and women like them this way despite their protestations. Women are becoming more butch and I’m guessing men like this as well.
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