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Posted on 07/31/2007 3:48:24 AM PDT by monomaniac
Russian Youth Group Encourages "More Sex" to Save Motherland from Dwindling Population
By John Jalsevac
MOSCOW, Russia, July 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Russian nationalist youth group is encouraging youth to have more sex in an effort to combat the nation's devastating demographic crisis, reports the Daily Mail.
In a lengthy special report the Daily Mail documents the activities of the Nashi youth movement, which is sponsoring a summer camp attended by some 10,000 Russian youth this summer. Not only are Nashi organizers encouraging the youth to have more sex, but they have designated a special area at the dormitories, the Love Oasis, for young men and women to engage in sexual intercourse. According to the Mail, condoms are unavailable in the camp.
"They [The pre-historic mammoths] became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia," said a Nashi organizer to a group of assembled campers.
The nationalistic camp involves two weeks of lectures, reported by some Western sources as being little more than anti-Western "propaganda," as well as a strenuous regimen of physical exercise. Numerous young couples have also been married at the camp, with 25 couples being married at the beginning of the first week, and ten to be married at the beginning of the second.
While many people, especially in the West, are finding in the Kremlin-initiated, and Kremlin-loyal Nashi youth group a disturbing image of similar groups started up in Nazi-era Germany, the camp's approach to sex is further evidence that the Russian government is not unaware that a demographic crisis is leading the entire Russian nation towards an early grave.
In late 2006, statistics indicated that Russia's population is withering away by at least 700,000 people each year, emptying the northern and eastern regions of Russia, and leaving hundreds of abandoned "ghost villages" dotting the Russian landscape.
Although the Russian government has wrestled with creative proposals to defuse the rapidly unfolding demographic crisis, including a so-called "sterility tax," Russia's politicians still continue to remain silent about addressing the elephant in the room, Russia's unfettered culture of abortion. Abortions outnumber Russian births by a ratio of 2-1, and have been a part of Russia since the then Communist country became the first nation in the world to legalize abortion in 1920. It is estimated that 70% of all pregnancies end in abortion.
High abortion rates also go statistically hand in hand with sexually permissive cultures, and as such it seems unlikely that Nashi's policy of encouraging "more sex" is going to solve Russia's demographic problem. While sex does lead to pregnancies and child-birth, without putting in place the moral order whereby abortion and contraception are seen as evils to be condemned and monogamous marriage as a foundational good, "more sex" will likely only lead to even higher rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, adding even more to the long list of Russia's ills.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Russian Demographic Situation Worsening - Abortions Outstrip Births http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/aug/05082404.html
Russian Abortion Killing and Sterilizing Millions; Demographic Collapse Likely to be Worse than Previously Predicted http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05041209.html
someone should do a nice curve of standard/cost of living vs the birth rate
ex cost to raising a child in Japan all the way to college vs guyana for example
and then calculate the #of kids per capital
what yes it has been done to me it boils to cash allways
I think part of their problem may be that a whole bunch of their good looking women are here in New Hampshire working rather than back in Russia procreating.
Nashi? Isn’t that a Russian neo-Nazi cult?
"They [The pre-historic mammoths] became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia," said a Nashi organizer to a group of assembled campers.
Ah, the old 'Extinct Mammoth' angle. Yeah!
Doesn't work, kid. Ask my wife.
Nothing to do with sex at all. Russia has the highest abortion rates in the world.
There seems to be a sense of hopelessness that can only be cured by the Gospel of Christ. Russia is a revival waiting to happen- are her church leaders up to the task?
And here We were always told that they died off because of an ice age, not to mention overpopulation. After all, it takes 500 billion dinosaurs just to fill one Saudi oil field. It's no wonder there still aren't any plants in that sandbox.
I still can't figure out how they knew to die in large piles... Could it be they died HAVING sex? They all caught a deadly STD while participating in mass orgies.
Ruskie's had better be careful promoting immoral sexual activities, it may lead them to the same fate. See aids in Africa, where according to aids pandemic alarmists, 680 million Africans die of aids every ten years, which means Africa sure has a high birthrate....
True, and combined with the long standing influence of Humanism and Secularism, which although failed, has still left serious scars. Also a sense of trying to emulate the hedonistic lifestyles of the west.
Are their church leaders up to the task? Well there are very big evangelistic efforts going on in the ex warsaw pact countries and they are having some effect. The native (orthodox) church is fairly active - but doesn’t get on well with the missionaries.
Until the causes of that statistic change, Putin's program among the youth to encourage more births is likely only to increase the number of and % of pregnancies, not the number or % of births.
I’m surprised the Indian abortion rate is so low—with all those female fetuses they’re supposedly aborting.
That was my first thought as well.
There are lots of Russian women in NH working? I must have missed that.
New Russian pick up line....but we must for the sake of the Motherland!
While the horrendous practice of female abortion does happen, it is isolated to rural areas. Abortion is totally unacceptable in the mainstream culture and there is a huge societal taboo against it which has the good effect of severely reducing abortions.
The 2nd reason the number is low could be the reporting of data itself. In a country of 1.1 billion people, it is very difficult to collect and tabulate info like this accurately.
Quantitatively, the numbers are high in India. I think 20 million+ abortions over the past two decades. This figure has been arrived at, supposedly, by applying today’s rates over all those two decades. But in a population of over a billion, 20 million is a tiny percentage.
Contrast that with the situation in the US, which has about a fourth of India’s population, with 8 times the abortion rate as India.
Probably the OFFICIAL abortion rate is low.
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