Joshua — what you are describing is substitution. Most young men don’t fit the ideal of the perfect man, so find substitution in games, the internet, etc. for their biological urges. Which remain stronger, but forbidden mostly by the lack of accomplishment relative to men. Equality for women has many good points, but one consequence is that most men are merely equal, not superior in status and power and prestige to women and therefore not that appealing. Even in Iran, women mostly choose. Since the tribal society was fractured by urbanization. [Ahmadinejad plans to move most of the remaining, impoverished rural population to urban centers.]
Cedarford does indeed have a point: ethnic and racial groups have a right to exist within historic lands. This btw is one of the Wilsonian Fourteen Points: Self Determination. That applies to Mexicans (who do not wish to be over-run by Guatemalans) and Italians who do not wish to be over-run by North Africans and Roma and Albanians.
However, I can state that Cedarford is conclusively wrong in his laughable assertion of “Jewish and Marxist lawyers” since Iran has a TFR of 1.71 and faces demographic annihilation by it’s neighbors with higher rates: Pakistan, Afhanistan, and Iraq. Last time I checked, no “Jewish and Marxist lawyers” in Iran.
It’s not JUST the West. Algeria, Tunisia, and Iran are in the same boat. If anything they may be worse since the governments there tend to obfuscate bad statistical data.
All evidence (plummeting birth rates in every industrializing/urbanizing nations) suggests this is a global phenomena NOT LINKED to culture, ideology, “lack of faith,” marxism, feminism, “Jewish lawyers” and the like.
I have seen here at Common Dreams the assertion that peak female fertility is from 17-23. I have no idea if this is true. It might very well be false. BUT if it is, it would explain how all these disparate cultures with only one thing in common — delays of women into the marriage market by urbanization and opportunity cost of early childbirth along with available and reliable birth control — have caused plummeting birth rates.
