You're not half the man your grandfather was
As the snowball of red meat, bench-pressing and intermittent fasting grows in size, so will the number of real men.
As medical terms go, hypogonadism is one of the more titter-inducing. Yet, what it entails – the diminished ability to produce sex hormones – is a bit more concerning.
Testosterone levels across the world are in decline. Reported intermittently over the last couple of decades there appears no halting the trend, with the amount of the male sex hormone falling 1% per year for decades. Compared to his grandfather or father, 21st century man is weaker, flabbier and has less grip strength: all predictors of future mortality.
Indeed, as the eight billionth person on Earth was born, scientists are wondering why sperm counts are decreasing year on year: between 1973-2018 sperm counts in men across the world halved. The rate of decline after 2000 has almost doubled.
Why? Well, people are too fat, for one: 64% of adults in England are overweight or obese, up from 53% in 1993. Sat in offices behind desks and forgoing exercise – and stuffing the occasional Greggs pasty down their gullet – people's reproductive health suffers, as excess weight is a predictor of low fertility. Yet studies suggest the declines are independent of this society-wide chubbing-up.
Maybe it's that we don't sleep enough. A lack of shut-eye is often held up as a form of bragging rights – doing an all-nighter before an exam perhaps – but it's pretty terrible for your health in the long run. Too many are not getting a full night's kip, distracted as they are by existential doom, or more likely, by the seductive mind-numbing diversions on the phone sitting on their bedside table.
'But what about climate change?' I hear none of you asking. Don't worry, the great idiot minds have factored that in too, with some alleging that a marginal increase of temperatures is reducing men's fertility, as gonads underperform when too warm. That the most fecund regions of the world tend also to be the warmest has predictably escaped their monomaniacal minds.
Then there's the issue of what we're putting in our bodies – and not just the junk food fried in strange oils. Booze doesn't help, nor do fags. More crucial are the ubiquitous endocrine-disrupting chemicals – phthalates, pesticides – that are nearly impossible to avoid. Those thinking of escaping to the country might be alarmed to learn that sperm counts in agricultural areas can be even lower than in cities due to exposure to compounds used in modern farming methods.
All of this seems to attract little public attention. One might think that the imminent threat of mass infertility would attract more than just a few lines of column here and there. 'Fact checkers' only want to get in on the action to try and disprove the whole thing as a big right-wing conspiracy (boo! hiss!). USA Today did a sterling job in this regard, earning 'well ackshually...' points in noting that the 50% fall in sperm counts had taken place over a slightly longer time frame than some ghastly right-wingers had claimed.
As society shifts towards feminine modes of behaviour – hyper-emotionality, aversion to physical violence and the discouragement of competitiveness – this blatant reduction in male vitality is perhaps a welcomed trend. Toxic masculinity is unlikely to survive long when the most testosterone-laden chap's levels are the same as that of a Victorian toddler's.
Perhaps, too, it is responsible for all the gender madness we witness. I once thought this a matter that solely existed online, but having moved to a university town it appears a non-negligible phenomenon. Even for those who have not gone the whole hog and changed their pronouns, trends indicate that fewer and fewer young men regard themselves as 'completely masculine'. Only a half-or-so of Oxbridge students describe themselves as 'heterosexual', echoing polling from a few years ago.
Which way the causation works is hard to figure out. To what extent are people falling victim to the reality-deconstructing ideologies of post-modernism, which thus results in less masculinity? Or is it the other way round, and that the rapid fall in testosterone and sperm counts is making people more susceptible to their snake oil?
It is hard to say. Maybe, too, it influences modern society's reaction – or rather, utter apathy – to what we see on our southern coast every day. Once upon a time, tens of thousands of young men turning up from overseas would have provoked a speedy reaction as the men of these Saxon shores repelled the invader. Today, we watch on passive and impotent (pun intended).
Getting sperm counts up might not be rocket science – the bits that we can control, anyway. Eat well, sleep properly, do exercise. Don't drink too much and stop smoking. Don't stress yourself too much with the minutiae of life and make sure you take vitamin D. Have sex more and stop watching mind-and-libido-rotting porn.
Much of that advice goes against modern wisdom, and it certainly contradicts what our WEF overlords have in store for us. The problem, however, is that we have reached a society without men. Sure, there are a few dinosaurs lurking around who still use the pronouns they were born with and aren't afraid of eating a steak or two, but on whole the masculine urge has been beaten out of us.
Want that to change? Don't rant online or take too many blackpills. Instead, manifest the change in yourself. Each positive improvement you make may inspire someone else to do the same. As the snowball of red meat, bench-pressing and intermittent fasting grows in size, so will the number of real men. Although today society teaches us that that would be a bad thing, more and more of us are realising that to be just another of the very many modern lies.
