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Let's F*ck! - by hugo - The Marathon

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How a bedroom question became a civilizational one.

Erotic fresco from the lupanar, Pompeii, first century AD. How many kids do you want? I’ve been asking every woman in my circle. Not only because I’m auditioning - I just love hearing the range of answers. The hesitations, the conditions, the fears. Some say two, like it’s obvious. Some say none, like it’s equally obvious. Some say “ask me again in five years,” which is its own kind of answer. The question sounds intimate. It is. But it’s also one of the most consequential questions of our time, and almost nobody treats it that way. The global fertility rate has halved in seventy years.…

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