by Duke Newcomb
The natural rate of homosexuality for males is probably about 5%. About 5% of the male population regularly watches gay porn. Periods of time in which population density increases and the birth rate per woman gets over three will result in an even larger gay male population due to epigenetic changes. Then you have to factor in M2F transgenderism and the males who prefer M2Fs to biological women. I’d say we’re now up to 6 to 7% of all males at the least.
Then you have some proportion of the male population who will die before reproductive age due to risk behavior. Then you have males who are simply unmarriageable for a variety of reasons (e.g. temperament, disability, pathological indolence). Conservatively, I’d say even in the best of times 10% of the born male population will be unserviceable in marriage markets.
Then you have those who die in war. Which, in the worse of times, can be tremendous. Especially when there is a new paradigm of war, like WWI with industrialized warfare. This may be the case again when combat drones are fielded alongside human warriors at large scale.
So, what are we supposed to do with all the potential spinsters? You want to talk about instability, stagnation, and collapse. Have you ever talked politics with a cat lady? They’d throw open the gates without hesitation or mental reservation.
An excess of cat ladies is a social nightmare for everyone.
What is to be done about it if not polygamy?