Would babies be born if...

Lets say that starting today, everyone's libido vanished. And that copulation was very painful.
How many people would be having kids anymore?

 

42

 

The world would be populated by sado-masochists.

 

So nothing would change?

 

Exactly.

 

a lot of women (and a few men) live for nothing but making and raising babies. so basically the roles would reverse, and women would keep trying to get sex from guys, with limited success.

 

you'd be surprised how many masochists there are in this world. or maybe not so surprised, considering all the things the mass of humanity allows itself to be conned into.

lowering labido might be a democratic way to reduce population increase, but it doesn't sound like a very fun one. reducing fertility itself, in a totally random and unbiased mannor, while theoretically less democratic, would certain be less unpleasant.

of course at the current population, masochists alone, WOULD probably sustain the species, quite sufficiently. of course the catch is that future children would be mostly born to masochistic parents.

its unclear what kind of world those children, in adolescence and adulthood would then create. i can't say for sure it would be worse, better or neither. but it probably would be not quite the same.

and of course there is an old and well know method for mass lowering of labido. and that's salt peter in the water supply. but that tastes just as bad as over floridation, so it would be pretty obvious to everyone their water had been messed with, even if not the manor or purpose for which it had.

but as far as i know this wouldn't make sexual activity painful, just lower preoccupation with it. this would not be a bad thing.

i know how this would make the water taste, because in the military, on base, during the viet nam era, well i can't prove it wouldn't if i could, but i believe this was done. and yes, the water tasted like over floridation.

 

It would just be a minute of pain to get a kid. People still would do that for their 18 years of pain afterwards.

 

Bet you had to think deep and for a long time to get to that.....:sunny:

 

It is impossible to answer the question 'how many people would have kids...' with more certainty in this scenario :mickey:

 

lol 42 is as good a guess as any

 

It is a very improbable 'what if' scenario I think. Nature ensures that humans will propagate by making it pleasurable.

That doesn't seem true for all animals. Listening to cats copulate doesn't sound like either one is getting much pleasure from it. But cats continue to multiply.

 

Ever come across 'The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy'?

 

Turkey basters and lonely nights.

 

If I remember right, 42 was the answer to the ultimate question...Or did the big computer ever calculate what the ultimate question was?

 

The super computer Deep Thought came up with 42 as the answer to 'life, the universe and everything'.

Later on, the mice had the planet earth built by the Magratheans as a kind of organic computer designed to yield the exact question that the answer 42 referred to. Unfortunately, shortly before the question could be ascertained, the earth was demolished to make way for a hyper space bypass.

 

Damn... progress ruins everything

 

The mice just had another identical planet earth made.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPWnitDyIOw"]Slartibartfast on life - YouTube

 

Prolly about the same number of people in the overall population would reproduce as gay or asexual people do now.

 

this escalated quickly