If the sex was for procreation, instead of entertainment, they wouldn't be having so many abortions, eh?
As for the European women, you could ask Freeper GermanBusiness ;-)
I have had a number of European women co-workers who have expressly described to me their deliberate decision to refrain from having children.
And I have talked to exchange students who talked about the casual in flagrante behaviour of many college kids over there. Couple that with any number of FReeper threads about the death of the European social welfare model, and the consequent necessity to import young laborers from the Muslim world, and...voila!
Anecdotal, but not made up.
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Apologies for dragging you into a crevo flamewar--I was referring to your more current experience in the dating world of Europe.
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Eh? Interesting, about Russian birth rates, but so what? We're talking about why nature might arm one with certain sexual instincts, which would be to help us survival in small, isolated tribes on a veldt.
But, let me point out, that instinct may be operating accurately even yet: have you ever seen a mother cat kill and eat the runt of her litter? Did you know that solitary mammal predators will frequently eat all the offspring of a litter if times seem particularly bad just then? Do you want to claim that these are bad investment strategies, genetic survival-wise? If you do, I would disagree: survival is as much about securing resources--and in humans, that could even mean philosophical/emotional/social resources as much as meat on the table--as it is about reproduction.