this is because japan still censor their porn so the young are confused about what a vagina looks like.

Look at my statistics in the thread later on for facts from the UN. It still does not change the fact that the countries standard of living is rising at a fast enough rate that the high population in China is only going to become a worse strain on world relations. India's standard is also rising and that is the real problem, because billions more people are going to be demanding more material items that the world cannot provide. It will affect us all like the rise in gas prices is already doing.

Hasn't ylour government and many others in Europe offered significant amounts of government funding to encourge more women to have more children? It seems it is not working because the benifits for mothers have been way higher than the US for a long time. It makes you wonder if there is an empirical solution to change it other than hoping cultural conditions change.

yeah there a lot of possibilities (no clue about other european countries). monthly money for every child to the date the child will start to make money with own work (that means like 20 years per child some hundred euros every month), some freetime from your job when you get your child (i believe 3 years), money you get the weeks before birth and something called "elterngeld" which u get the first 12 months or so up to 1800 euro per month (depends on your income)

maybe i forgot something or i have some numbers wrong but it's not like you wouldn't get financial help.

but this doesn't seem to be the biggest problem, people with most money get the least kids and they could get some even without financial help. who has the most kids in germany? yeah the poor people.

Way better than the US, and I think women deserve more help here.

Main point: It is your duty as a German to impregnate at least three women to increase the population.

My post will likely be lost as I'm LTTP, but it also stims from the Japanese thoughts about sex. Most Japanese lose their virginity earlier in life than other first world countries. It also comes with the thoughts about sex in terms of the natural pre-approval steps almost. Most women won't even talk to certain if they don't have certain traits or physical possessions. That said, the entirely small animated porn market and whatever else BS is horrifically being attached to this is funny. That market is so incredibly small and looked down upon by society, that people truly do not understand how few use them.

Anyway, the declining birth rate is a large problem, and it won't be fixing itself anytime soon.

EDIT: Read some of the thread. Seriously people? I challenge to go see how few people actually watch the nerdy anime or hentai. The numbers are so incredibly low, it's not even valid to use it a reason or excuse. Again, it's not people disliking the physical satisfaction of it, but rather the cultural and social ramifications of it that leads to negative overall thoughts about it.

The financial support for children is not bad here in Germany. But I think the bigger problem is the not so good offerings for child care. I think at this point it would be more important than more money, to increase the birth-rate. And politicians have seen this already as a problem.

Yep, my post was far too late.

to think this is only the start of it, this will continue in the future, as people put their careers and life's first instead of having kids. it will be a tough challenge, that will affect most countries in the future, as they will have an ageing population putting an increasing pressure on the workers. which there will be less of. I dread to imagine what i'll be like when China goes thru what Japan is now

Could be true for first world countries, or the working world, but in poor uneducated countries, they have nothing else to do but have sex.