How to reverse declining birth rates? The guy from Jim’s Mowing has a theory and it’s … unusual

In a new book, Jim Penman argues our brains have been made insensitive to dopamine by over-exposure to sex, porn, social media, gambling, drugs, alcohol, caffeine and many other things

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Limiting sex could lead to more babies, the man behind Jim’s Mowing says. Sex, drugs, parties and social media have blunted humans’ dopamine responses, Jim Penman argues in a new book. That has led to less interest in faith, community, marriage and producing potentially “boring” children.

“Scientific interventions may become necessary” to turn around the resulting fall in birthrates, he writes in The Birth-rate Crisis: the Hidden Catastrophe in the Global Decline.