The Mysterious Declining Birthrates of Industrialized Nations Explained?

JL Wall     August 13th, 2009     
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by JL Wall

… by television?  And India is introducing electricity and late night TV to poor, rural villages — as birth control?

One such survey done in 2006 by an Italian sexologist reveals couples with televisions in their bedrooms had sex half as much as those without it.

Between the article as a whole, the word “sexologist” (doesn’t it just sound giggly?) and Pitino-gate schadenfreude I’m happily distracted from Cubs box scores at the moment — albeit in a way that makes me feel vaguely like a twelve year old, but what can you do, really?

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2 Responses to “The Mysterious Declining Birthrates of Industrialized Nations Explained?”

  1. FlyFish, on August 13th, 2009 at 8:14 pm Said:

    Apparently there’s a TV hidden somewhere in my bedroom! Crap, can’t find it!

  2. Joe, on August 14th, 2009 at 11:36 am Said:

    I was introduced to this idea long ago by my high school Latin professor, who had grown up picking stuff out of a trash heap in the Phillipines. As he put it, “What else are they going to do? When it gets dark, it gets dark.”

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