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 <p>Our modern culture is a declining culture much like the Late Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire, but with one difference.  We have very effective birth control.  This adds one other evolutionary factor to the mix.  Since our society financially punishes successful men who have children with many women by imposing child support on them, such men who have intelligence and are responsible will tend to use birth control.  Women who are intelligent and want to control the number of children they have will also use birth control.  It will tend to be the stupid and irresponsible who don't use birth control.  The evolutionary benefit of this should be obvious.  So not only is our society evolving towards immorality like former declining empires, we are also evolving towards stupidity and irresponsibility.  The more feminist a culture is, the faster this evolutionary process is occurring since feminism promotes all aspects that contribute to evolutionary decay including promiscuity, alimony and child support laws, and birth control.  This is why one sees that women in feminist societies find moral men to be boring and intelligent and responsible men to be nerds.  Women in feminist societies find immoral, stupid, irresponsible men to be the most sexually exciting.  And in a sense they are correct because in such a society this is the type of man who is the most evolutionarily successful.</p>
 <p>To summarize, enforcement of sexual fidelity strengthens a society by increasing trust among men and by changing women's mating preferences so as to cause positive evolution in the society.  Enough theorizing.  It is time to back up these ideas with facts.</p>
-<p>In the book <a href="http://mikraite.arkian.net/Sex-and-Culture-book-tp437.html">Sex and Culture</a> anthropologist Unwin analyzes the correlation between female premarital chastity and the level of development in all known isolated tribes of his time.  He finds that female premarital chastity perfectly correlates to the level of development, absolutely without exception.  Unwin was a rigorous scientist who insisted on using objective measures for his data.  He used objective data both to measure level of development and to measure female premarital chastity.  His book is lengthy, going into great detail for each of the 80 tribes analyzed.  Unwin then turns to history and studies rising and falling cultures.  Again he finds that all rising cultures require strict female premarital chastity (virgin wives) and that declining cultures typically don't enforce female premarital chastity.  Unwin was a liberal and probably an atheist, so he was actually very unhappy with his own findings since they contradict his own values.  So Unwin deserves enormous credit for having the intellectual honesty to publish his findings.  Of course his findings are so politically incorrect that his book is out of print and is avoided by the liberal academic establishment.  Unwin tried to explain his findings from a liberal perspective by saying that prenuptial chastity causes sexual repression which in turn causes energy to be redirected into developing culture.  Unwin admits that he has no basis for his theory.  And in fact history proves this theory to be false since most rising cultures had widespread prostitution which has no evolutionary impact but which alleviates male sexual repression.  An example would be Ancient Athens where men had easy access to prostitutes but where female chastity and sexual fidelity were strictly enforced.  So Unwin's theory is wrong.  On the other hand, his data perfectly supports the theory presented here that reproductive monogamy strengthens society.</p>
+<p>In the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Culture-Joseph-Daniel-Unwin-ebook/dp/B083113DMD">Sex and Culture</a> anthropologist Unwin analyzes the correlation between female premarital chastity and the level of development in all known isolated tribes of his time.  He finds that female premarital chastity perfectly correlates to the level of development, absolutely without exception.  Unwin was a rigorous scientist who insisted on using objective measures for his data.  He used objective data both to measure level of development and to measure female premarital chastity.  His book is lengthy, going into great detail for each of the 80 tribes analyzed.  Unwin then turns to history and studies rising and falling cultures.  Again he finds that all rising cultures require strict female premarital chastity (virgin wives) and that declining cultures typically don't enforce female premarital chastity.  Unwin was a liberal and probably an atheist, so he was actually very unhappy with his own findings since they contradict his own values.  So Unwin deserves enormous credit for having the intellectual honesty to publish his findings.  Of course his findings are so politically incorrect that his book is out of print and is avoided by the liberal academic establishment.  Unwin tried to explain his findings from a liberal perspective by saying that prenuptial chastity causes sexual repression which in turn causes energy to be redirected into developing culture.  Unwin admits that he has no basis for his theory.  And in fact history proves this theory to be false since most rising cultures had widespread prostitution which has no evolutionary impact but which alleviates male sexual repression.  An example would be Ancient Athens where men had easy access to prostitutes but where female chastity and sexual fidelity were strictly enforced.  So Unwin's theory is wrong.  On the other hand, his data perfectly supports the theory presented here that reproductive monogamy strengthens society.</p>
 <p>It is unfortunate that "Sex and Culture" is out of print.  I consider this to be the most important book written since Darwin's "The Origin of Species".  This book is what start my thinking about the issues discussed in this article.  I have managed to buy an original copy of this book and I would like to scan it and make it available on the internet someday.</p>
 <p>"Sex and Culture" gives a very good overview of history and the correlation between sexual regulation and cultural development.  This motivated me to do a lot of reading of original works in history and all that I have read supports the pattern that Unwin found.  In our modern culture, even the academics and intellectuals are ignorant of history.  This is because liberal culture doesn't consider the lessons of history to be applicable to our times.  Of course I disagree.  We are still human and we are in no way superior to the people who have populated history.  For anyone interested in reading about history, I will suggest some titles.  For rising cultures, read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Penguin-Classics-Homer/dp/0140447946/">The Iliad</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Penguin-Classics-Homer/dp/0140449116/">The Odyssey</a>, books by Livy starting with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Livy-Early-History-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140448098/">The Early History of Rome</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-Penguin-Classics-Tocqueville/dp/0140447601/">Democracy in America</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002GJGIDQ/">The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism</a>.  For declining cultures, read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sixteen-Satires-Penguin-Classics-Juvenal/dp/0140447040/">Juvenal</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374531811/">The Golden Ass</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140455280/">The Secret History</a>.  For an overview of the lessons of history, read the short article <a href="images/fate.pdf">The Fate of Empires</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Discourses-Livy-Niccolo-Machiavelli/dp/1420931458/">The Discourses on Livy</a>, and of course <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drill-Bible-Holman-Editorial-Staff/dp/1433601729/">The Bible</a>.</p>

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