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Tag: Boys Will Be Boys

Sex is main cause of population growth

June 20, 2009 Marc Abrahams

A March 26, 2009 press release by the Optimum Population Trust explains: SEX IS MAIN CAUSE OF POPULATION GROWTH Sex, not religious or cultural beliefs or the quest for economic security, is what increases family size and drives world population growth, according to one of the UK’s leading authorities on family planning. Conventional economic wisdom, […]

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Reproductive Dead-Ends: bicycles, pavement et al.

March 25, 2009 Stephen Drew

An October 31, 2007 report in The Telegraph: Man who had sex with bike in court A man has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle…. Robert Stewart was discovered in his room by two cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, south west […]

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