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by passwordoops 771 days ago
Is it porn, or an additional effect of whatever has been decreasing sperm counts over the past century

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1393072/

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It is surprisingly easy to correlate continuously increasing and continuously decreasing functions

https://donhillson.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/link-found-betwe...

Sperm counts are going down for the better part of a century, and people are having less sex. Obviously coincendal and cannot related to each other in the least...
Who's to say that's not also attributable to porn, which after all causes a drop in sperm counts too
That the drop started in the 1940s