Reginald Thompson
“A primary cause of low fertility in the Greco-Roman world was a male culture that held marriage in low esteem.” -Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity
A problem with legalized pornography is that if you allow pornography to become too widely consumed, its degraded vision of women will eat away at the capacity of men to fall in love with members of the opposite sex. This reduced capacity for romantic love will make the men of a society less interested in the joys and challenges of stable pair bond based reproduction. Pornography encourages recreational sex rather than marriage and children.
Also, pornography will discourage men from participating in stable pair bonds by tricking their Limbic Systems into thinking they’re getting so much sex that there’s no need to settle down.
Given that stable pair bond based sex is by far the most valuable from the standpoint of increasing the birth rate, I decided to do some research on whether legalized pornography correlates with a country having reduced fertility.
From Wikipedia I found a list of 45 Countries where it was possible to assign their pornography laws to one of three categories: Pornography Banned, Semi-Legalized Pornography, or fully Legalized Pornography.
Then I looked at the 2000 TFR Rates for these countries as provided by the CIA World Factbook:
N Total Fertility Rate
Pornography Banned 19 2.73
Pornography Semi-Legal 5 1.69
Pornography Fully Legal 21 1.67
As can be seen, there’s a stunningly large gap in fertility between countries where pornography is banned and countries where it is wholly or partially legal. In fact, the gap is great enough that even with a sample size of only 45 countries, the Mann-Whitney test of the difference between two means gives a P Value of only .000005.
Could this discrepancy be driven by White countries almost all having legal pornography while having low Fertility for other reasons?
No it couldn’t, as the discrepancy is almost exactly the same even after we throw the White countries out of the equation!
N Total Fertility Rate
Pornogrpahy Banned 17 2.85
Pornography Semi-Legal 1 3.11
Pornography Legal 6 1.79
But what about the possibility that Muslims countries almost all have illegal pornography while at the same time having higher Birth Rates for other reasons?
That can’t be what’s driving the result either, as the correlation remains nearly as strong even after throwing out all the Muslim countries:
N Total Fertility Rate
Pornography Banned 19 2.35
Pornography Semi-Legal 5 1.69
Pornography Legal 10 1.63
At the same time there might be more subtle differences between countries where pornography is banned and countries where it is not that could be partially driving this result.
The real question from a practical standpoint is whether legalizing pornography in a country will drive down fertility. If that is the case, we can rightfully conclude that reversing the legalization of pornography in a country would be of great benefit to its Birth Rate.
From the CDC I found tables showing the Total Fertility Rate for America in the years 1940 to 2000.
Then I decided to look up the Total Fertility Rate for the 5 years before and 5 years after two key Supreme Court rulings that made it essentially impossible to arrest an American for distributing or possessing obscene materials, and which opened never before seen floodgates of pornography.
Jacobellis v. Ohio Stanley v. Georgia
TFR For 5 Years Before 3.53 2.62
TFR For 5 Years After 2.77 2.04
As can be seen, America’s Total Fertility Rate suffered a profound decline in response to the Supreme Court’s two most important rulings in favor of the pornography industry.
Also, when I put whether a year came before or after Jacobellis v. Ohio and Stanley v. Georgia as Dummy Variables in a Multiple Regression, together they explained a staggering 77% of the variation in American fertility from 1940 to 2000!
I think the implications of these findings to White Advocates should be loud and clear: The use of pornography by Whites should be fought tooth and nail, and the banning of pornography in White majority countries and states should be set as a central long-term goal.
Notes: Jacobellis v. Ohio was a 1964 ruling by the Supreme Court that the exhibitor of a film judged obscene by the state of Ohio could not be prosecuted. This had the effect of making it nearly impossible for States to punish people for disseminating pornography.
Stanley v. Georgia was a 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court that invalidated all state laws forbidding the private possession of materials judged obscene. This effectively gave everyone in the country the legal right to buy and hold as much pornography as they could their hands on, thus creating a state of affairs never before seen in American history.
Reginald Thompson is the Pen Name of an Advisor to an International Software Company. He lives on the American East Coast and is proprietor/manager of a recently created Blog called Statsaholic.
