I think that Spengler is presenting a very important insight, unless the data he presents re the extent of Persian whoring is simply fabricated.
If true, Iran is on the skids and the Mullahs are desperate.
This is the first time I've paid careful attention to this writer, that I recall.
It's reason for hope, I guess; and some of his claims repeat what I heard elsewhere. The business about shiites sanction of "temporary marriage" was cited by some shiite to explain why sunnis are so nasty: they ain't been laid.
If declining populations implies whoring and national decline, then America is in trouble, and I'd gladly hear any suggestions about how I can keep my daughter out of the market.
Population experts were saying a few years ago that poverty increases birthrates-- I guess people can't afford tickets to the symphony so they copulate. For the last decade or so its been maintained that industrialism and rising standard of living would slow population growth.
If this is true of Iran, it must be doubly true of North Korea. How many whorehouses in China?
The main thing: shiites might be on the wane. But what about the sunnis? He mentions Azerbijan, not reassuringly.
I don't know the angle Spengler writes on, but on that show last night on cable about Iran, Red Kopple said Tehran has a large population of young drug addicts. Drugs are hand in hand with other human degradation.