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How interesting:
Sex and culture by Joseph Unwin https://www.amazon.com.au/Sex-Culture-Joseph-Daniel-Unwin/dp/1979867046
He studied 80 different nations and 6 civilizations throughout history, examined their individual rises and falls, and concluded that the causes of their falls were largely determined by the loosening of sexual conventions and lessening of monogamous relationships.
summary
I wonder why we’ve seen such a rapid over sexualisation of western culture?
The highly sexual influence from pop culture has been intense since the 90s (when I was born haha, can’t speak for before that).
Do you think it happened naturally?
Or could it be rival nations trying to crash the empire through pop culture and food (high estrogen causing over sexualisation)?
Sex and culture by Joseph Unwin https://www.amazon.com.au/Sex-Culture-Joseph-Daniel-Unwin/dp/1979867046
He studied 80 different nations and 6 civilizations throughout history, examined their individual rises and falls, and concluded that the causes of their falls were largely determined by the loosening of sexual conventions and lessening of monogamous relationships.
summary
- Effect of sexual constraints: Increased sexual constraints, either pre or post-nuptial, always led to increased flourishing of a culture. Conversely, increased sexual freedom always led to the collapse of a culture three generations later.
- Single most influential factor: Surprisingly, the data revealed that the single most important correlation with the flourishing of a culture was whether pre-nuptial chastity was required or not. It had a very significant effect either way.
- Highest flourishing of culture: The most powerful combination was pre-nuptial chastity coupled with “absolute monogamy”. Rationalist cultures that retained this combination for at least three generations exceeded all other cultures in every area, including literature, art, science, furniture, architecture, engineering, and agriculture. Only three out of the eighty-six cultures studied ever attained this level.
- Effect of abandoning prenuptial chastity: When strict prenuptial chastity was no longer the norm, absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking also disappeared within three generations.
- Total sexual freedom: If total sexual freedom was embraced by a culture, that culture collapsed within three generations to the lowest state of flourishing — which Unwin describes as “inert” and at a “dead level of conception” and is characterized by people who have little interest in much else other than their own wants and needs. At this level, the culture is usually conquered or taken over by another culture with greater social energy.
- Time lag: If there is a change in sexual constraints, either increased or decreased restraints, the full effect of that change is not realized until the third generation. (Note: I’ve added a clarifying footnote at the end of this article. See footnote #13)
(Summary from Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought — Quest)
I wonder why we’ve seen such a rapid over sexualisation of western culture?
The highly sexual influence from pop culture has been intense since the 90s (when I was born haha, can’t speak for before that).
Do you think it happened naturally?
Or could it be rival nations trying to crash the empire through pop culture and food (high estrogen causing over sexualisation)?