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| Ocean City MD, 2014 |
There are sporadic reports online about shrinking male
fertility and even “primary organ” size, as a result of chemical pollution. TRTWorld proffers the article “What’s behind
the epidemic of shrinking genitals and low male fertility?” It warns that boys are poisoned in the womb,
and are growing up with low drive, obesity, diabetes, and lack of
masculinity.
But the article leads to a discussion of a book in GQ,
review by Andrew Zalewski, book by Shanna Swan, “Count Down: How Our Modern
World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive
Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race”, from Scribner, Feb.
2021, 304 pages hardcover. Zalewski
interviews Swan, who warns we face a dystopian world like “The Handmaid’s Tale” (or maybe the 2006 film "Children of Men").
Some of her
findings are based on an Oxford Update ("Human Reproduction Update" from 2017), to which she contributed.
It’s ironic that, with all the talk of non-binary status,
gay men desire masculinity and potency from partners strictly out of upward
affiliation rather than procreation. Swan may be hinting at what George Gilder
had called “Sexual Suicide’ in a 1973 Quadrangle book.
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