Also, when the mortality rate is higher people have more kids. A 100 years ago Western countries had child mortality rates like those of the poorest countries today. And people had bigger families. Because if your child has one chance in 8 of dying before he turns 5, you’d surely try to have another child.

There seems to be this huge disconnect with people as technology advances – we are all connected by means of electronics yet many of us simply cannot communicate face to face. We replace meaningful interactions and conversations with a series of asynchronous text messages with our loved ones. Men look down on women and see them as 3-holed chattel and women, with their disposable income supplant their unhappy existences with the latest handbags or go to host clubs and all for what? Extra OT at the office so we can fill our lives w/ more useless crap and/or outsourced services? Sex and relationships will never get better unless we consider them an actual priority.

Male or female, we need to stop blaming the opposite sex for our frustrations that prevent us from having decent sex. You ask any doctor, psychologist, or therapist and he/she will tell you that orgasms are as mental as they are physical.