Newsweek has a major scare cover, Who’s Killing America’s Sperm? The story, Male Infertility Crisis in U.S. Has Experts Baffled, delves into a decline in male fertility, not only in America, but throughout most of the world, particularly in the industrialized western world. The article begins:
“Hagai Levine doesn’t scare easily. The Hebrew University public health researcher is the former chief epidemiologist for the Israel Defense Forces, which means he’s acquainted with danger and risk in a way most of his academic counterparts aren’t. So when he raises doubts about the future of the human race, it’s worth listening. Together with Shanna Swan, a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Levine authored a major new analysis that tracked male sperm levels over the past few decades, and what he found frightened him. “Reproduction may be the most important function of any species,” says Levine. “Something is very wrong with men.””
The Newsweek article portends great danger to human existence, a world without people. Back in February, in a blog post, An extreme feminist Utopia, I wrote a book report, of sorts, on Charles Eric Maine’s 1958 dystopian novel, World Without Men:
“I reject feminism, because it’s not just some benign battle for “fairness” in the workplace or expanding opportunities for women, it’s about tearing down the entire framework of western civilization. Maine’s novel, set 5,000 years into the future, describes a world literally without men. Although sounding totally implausible at first glance, Maine offers snapshot-like short chapters into the past, that lay out frightening events along the way to how this “world without men” came to be. While novels like this aren’t to be taken literally or as prescience for what is to come, like 1984, Maine touched on some issues that are worth thinking about.”
Maine’s novel delves into what a world social order, where only females exist, would be like. His novel centers on a world where humans, over time, began overproducing females, until males became extinct, except for male genetic material saved in labs around the world. In Maine’s futuristic world, government-controlled scientists work tirelessly to try to reproduce a living male child, while the female world is indoctrinated into a media fed lie about parthenogenesis, that men became obsolete and unnecessary, with all their endless wars and exploration. A world without men allowed for an evolution to an orderly, stable world of only women:
The official P.A.S. history teaches:
“There never could have been a Utopia while man survived and controlled human affairs, for his innate aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity forced him restlessly to pursue the ever-widening boundary of knowledge without giving a thought to the application of his newly found powers in the service of humanity. In abolishing man, nature had opened the way to the permanent establishment of peace and plenty. Several women scientists had pointed out that man had been necessary to nature’s purpose; he had tackled, with considerable energy and ingenuity, the problem of adapting his environment to himself, and had succeeded in wresting from the blind forces of the cosmos all the power he needed to secure the supremacy and ultimate survival of the human race as an entity. And at that point man became redundant. Worse he became an obstacle to the wise and peaceful exploitation of natural power for the benefit of his species. So man ceased to exist, and woman became mistress of her planet, and nature provided parthenogenesis to replace the outmoded reproduction mechanism that had vanished with the male sex.”
p. 35, World Without Men, Maine, Charles Eric
In his fictional novel, the catalyst for Maine’s fake parthenogenesis is the advent of female oral contraceptives, which, over several thousand years, led to human reproduction going haywire, overproducing females and the eventual extinction of males. Oddly enough, the Newsweek article chronicles a lengthy list of concerns for the decrease in male fertility from obesity to chemicals, but it does not include any mention of female oral contraceptives, as something to look into, even though they dramatically alter female hormones levels and the female reproductive system. The Newsweek article states:
“Most sperm will never come close to an egg—while a fertile man ejaculates 20 million to 300 million sperm per milliliter of semen, only a few dozen might reach their destination, and only one can drill through the egg’s membrane and achieve conception. The chemical makeup of the vagina is actively hostile to sperm, which can only survive because semen contains alkaline substances that offset the acidic environment. That’s the paradox of sperm counts—although one healthy sperm is enough to make a baby, it takes tens of millions of sperm to beat the odds, which means that significant declines in sperm counts will eventually degrade overall male fertility. Notes Swan: “Even a relatively small change in the mean sperm count has a big impact on the percentage of men who will be classified as infertile or subfertile”—meaning a reduced level of fertility that makes it harder to conceive.”
Of course, the article does offer feminist-tinged agendas about how poor women bear such a burden, “it is women who bear the medical and psychological burden of trying to get—and stay—pregnant”… Despite, the scare headlines warning that human reproduction is at risk, there’s nary a mention of the increased use of female oral contraceptives in the Newsweek story and that glaring omission bothers me. You’d think that scientists, who are looking for all sorts of causes, even cellphones, BPA and smoking, to explain the drop in fertility, both female and male, perhaps they might add looking into the impact of increased use of oral contraceptives on human reproduction too.
Would looking into the impact of oral contraceptives rock the boat of acceptable scientific inquiry? I suspect, that although we aren’t living in a “world without men”, we, to include our scientific research, are rigidly controlled by politically correct, feminist-driven conformity. Is our scientific research ideologically castrated, to be performed only by PC-indoctrinated eunuchs?
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To get a drug on the market takes years to get FDA approval. If aspirin were invented today, the costs and efforts to get FDA approval may prove to be prohibitive.
On the other hand, contraceptives, RU486, and enhancement drugs are improved immediately. What’s your take?
I’m not a science or math person, so I can’t speak to the “science” about contraceptives or even Maine’s 1950s, fictitious plot device of a catastrophic unintended consequence from a new pill-form contraceptive for women. However, it just seems like if scientists, who are “science” people, are probing possible causes and factors for fertility problems, whether male or female, studying oral contraceptives would be a factor to study. The effects on children born to mothers, who used oral contraceptives for many years, would seem as important as studying BPA’s effect on male fertility.
It took many years before women were warned of the serious cardiovascular risks with oral contraceptives use, leading me to wonder why it took so long. And there seems to be a politicized agenda when it comes to contraceptive drugs, where feminists rule that roost.
The demographic decline in Russia and many European countries, where they aren’t reproducing at a rate to sustain the population speaks to multiple factors, spawned from both cultural and political influence, that might have combined to create almost a perfect storm for demographic demise in those countries.
In China, a politically-forced policy, to control population growth, led to a culture that prized male births, when only “one child” per family was allowed. This dramatic sex imbalance in that population might lead to some very equally dramatic long-term cultural outcomes. Some demographers believe a population with a high male to female ratio leads to male aggression beyond the group and to outward movement of the males seeking mates.