Ask A Genius 1360: Falling Birth Rates, Relationship Trends, and the Decline of Sex Scandals
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/04/28
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When you are talking here, this can be a topic…
Rick Rosner: It is a brief topic. When Carole and I are talking about some ridiculous sex scandal, my standard glib response is: Guys have to get the jizz out.
Jacobsen: Louis C.K. once described men as having “jizz on demand.” The idea is that the average man, over a lifetime, might ejaculate about 10,000 times.
Rosner: That seems high. Maybe it is about half that. Still, even after 5,000 times, it is a staggering amount. However, the broader point is connected to the trends we are seeing. Younger people today—and this is statistically backed up—are coupling up less than they used to.
Over the past twenty years, the number of births in the United States has dropped by about 8 to 10 percent, even as the population has slowly grown. The number of babies born annually has fallen from over four million to around 3.67 million yearly.
So, people are withdrawing somewhat from relationships and coupling, staying home more, and, yes, masturbating more instead of forming relationships.
Jacobsen: And you would hope…?
Rosner: I would hope that—while some establishment voices say it is bad that birth rates are falling—it could have at least one positive side effect: a decline in sex scandals. If regular people are staying home instead of aggressively seeking partners, maybe scumbags are doing the same thing—staying home and jerking off instead of getting embroiled in sexual misconduct scandals.
I do not know unless you have comments. Did you get your idea? Am I finished?
I have made this point before: When you look at the biggest, most scandalous serial harassers and rapists, they are mostly older men. It seems to have been more common in previous generations. I am hoping the rate of that kind of behaviour is declining.
Harvey Weinstein is in his seventies and falling apart. Bill Cosby is in his eighties. Trump will be seventy-nine in two months.
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