Food abundance, confidence in the future

Parents who feel safe and able to feed their offspring in good conditions tend in principle to make more children than otherwise.
When it is known that food will be lacking, that there will be no drinking water for everyone, that conflicts will put lives at risk, a natural reflex would spontaneously limit the number of children desired.

This reaction can explain the phase of demographic explosion that is observed in the first period of demographic transition, when new progress comes to reassure and energize minds. On the other hand, it is illusory to infer the reciprocal: in a situation of stress, the most natural reflex is instead to multiply the progeny in order to give the species a maximum chance of survival.

This phenomenon is already observed in plants: when a plant is stressed, by depriving it of water for example, it tends to produce more fruit even if it sacrifices its own growth. Stressed rats also multiply their offspring. The poorest countries, exposed to famine and conflict, have higher birth rates than others. Stress seems to push humans to reproduce more.

We must also count with unwanted children. Poverty and social disorder are not conducive to the rational use of contraceptives. Depression can lead to increased coitus and risk. It would therefore be illusory to rely on natural birth control when the ecological impasse becomes more stressful.

Living conditions will not be really stressful until it is too late. There should be an awareness that anticipates entry into the irreversible. But how do we get billions of people to restrict their offspring without having the impression that their most elementary freedom is being touched, that they are being intruded into their intimacy and sexual life?

The only possibility will be to begin by understanding why human psychic and psychosexual functioning lead to proliferation putting the species itself in danger. What are the factors that generate such an impasse? What are the respective roles of innate instincts, cultural constraints, conditioning, food, religions?

It is possible that the very image we have of sexuality has deviated from what it should be by nature. Many facts suggest this, such as the endemic neurosis that psychoanalysis relates to sexual refoulement, the dichotomy between repressive morals and pornography, the sufferings that result from most love stories, discrimination against homosexuals for millennia…

Behind suffering and contradictions are usually hidden from mistakes made in relation to natural laws. The first is to define the natural laws of human sexuality. The light could then be made in these obscure areas of our culture, and make possible the necessary awareness on a large scale to avoid the imminent impasse…