Of course it's related.
Also, look at the levels of estrogen-related compounds in our drinking water due to all of the birth control and think of what effect that might have on male fertility, which we know is the lowest in recorded history...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125813.h...
As for "hookup culture" that sounds like something largely made up by conservative pundents and you are describing it as a real thing.
Yikes.
Meanwhile, nobody has been able to replicate those results in the 10+ years since then, I wonder why.
>As for "hookup culture" that sounds like something largely made up by conservative pundents and you are describing it as a real thing.
Many liberals don't think glorifying hedonism is a good thing. I guess I'm open to hear the argument though, so what is the advantage for society to promote hook-up culture? What good comes from that vs the alternative?
I think it's pretty clear you don't care about scientific evidence but think women having consensual, nonreproductive sex is icky, so very much want it to be true that birth control is poison, and don't really care about the truth level of what you are posting as long as it feels true.
As for your other point, I already said there's no such thing as hookup culture, that's just an outlandish stereotype you want to box people into.
lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookup_culture
I said I was open to hearing the advantages of promoting hedonism in society. And that applies to men or women. What are they?
I don't know how to explain to you that the meaning of life isn't to make babies, and that it's morally wrong to optimize society for making babies by treating women as chattel, banning birth control, censoring art work, screaming all day about birth control being poison, or whatever it is you think you are fighting for.
Agreed 100%. Consensual sex is awesome (the only good kind!), but we're talking about hook-up culture specifically though.
And I never said anything about banning birth control, there are many different types of birth control. The ones that add estrogen to our water supply are problematic though.[0]
As an aside, what do you think is causing the massive drop in fertility and semen counts in western men?[1] It's one thing to handwave away things you don't like, but we know semen counts have never been this low, so why do you think that is?
[0] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26454754/
[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/health/male-sperm-count-p...
If the medical community has no consensus about the cause of semen decline, how the fuck should you or I know the cause? Linking to something about bass doesn't really suggest to me you have a basic understanding of the facts. Did it occur to you bass don't live in the same environments humans do and they may have a few anatomical differences than humans?
I think you would benefit from less original thinking on the matter and more sticking with what experts say on medical matters in general.
Here's a mayo clinic article on low sperm count, for example:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/low-sperm-cou...
It has a section on environmental causes none of which include estrogen.
If nobody has been able to replicate the results you should be able to document the scientists who tried to replicate the results and failed to do so.
That said, why assume a nebulous concept like "hookup culture" is causing declining birth rates when a simple google search will reveal plenty of well-studied factors with demonstrated influence on fertility (not to mention far more cultural universality). For reference, some examples include: increased educational attainment among women, increased labor-force participation among women, increased urbanization, increased cost-of-living
It's pretty well defined and has been for some time. The link was posted in the thread, but here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookup_culture.
Based on the above, as well as your lack of engagement with any of the fertility-related factors I provided, I'm assuming you're more interested in voicing some sort of cultural critique than discussing actual drivers behind trends in birth rates.