My co blogger Lucia Maria has come in for a bit of stick for this comment
Fifty years ago the oral contraceptive was approved for general use - and this unleashed a cultural revolution. The genie is out of the bottle. we can't put it back.
The problem is that the first generation who could control their fertility in this manner are approaching retirement age - which means that there are shortly to be large numbers of elderly folks and not enough young working age folks to support them because these people did not have enough children in their prime years and nor have the children they did have produced them in sufficient numbers.
The problem has been swept under the carpet in Northern Europe, and Australasia to some extent by immigration but the crunch is coming.
This is the true source of today's problems in Greece and Italy. It is also recognized as a major issue in Japan, Korea and Russia.
But we are still in a state of denial.
In the short term it's been a hell of a party for some - in the long term it is a civilization ender.
Contraception should be outlawed. It turns women into sexual playthings that can be discarded when something younger and prettier comes along. It takes away women's power to withhold sex unless the man says "I do". And it allows men to stay at a level of stunted development where they never have to grow up.Apart from the banning aspect I agree with it, more or less.
Fifty years ago the oral contraceptive was approved for general use - and this unleashed a cultural revolution. The genie is out of the bottle. we can't put it back.
The problem is that the first generation who could control their fertility in this manner are approaching retirement age - which means that there are shortly to be large numbers of elderly folks and not enough young working age folks to support them because these people did not have enough children in their prime years and nor have the children they did have produced them in sufficient numbers.
The problem has been swept under the carpet in Northern Europe, and Australasia to some extent by immigration but the crunch is coming.
This is the true source of today's problems in Greece and Italy. It is also recognized as a major issue in Japan, Korea and Russia.
But we are still in a state of denial.
In the short term it's been a hell of a party for some - in the long term it is a civilization ender.