When you consider that atheism is such a chronically small minority then surely part of this is because it isn't being reproduced. Is this a sex drive issue? What is your experience?

Wha? Um er no, not at all in my experience. I don't know how the two are related. If there is a correlation then everyone should have my sex drive. Off the chart.

Possibly related:

http://newhumanist.org.uk/2267/battle-of-the-babies

I think the issue is not having babies, not not having sex. It's pretty easy to have sex without babies, and about half the atheists I know irl are not reproducing, but sex drive is definitely not an issue.

Also, while atheists may be a minority, all signs indicate numbers are growing, not shrinking. Since many of us have two christian parents I'm not sure even if none of us had babies it would mean the numbers would stop growing.

What a weird conclusion

i always had a high sex drive and that didnt change. as regards to reproduction ...have no idea what to think

Wait a minute, I figured it out! I think alienpresence took a time machine from the past (before there was birth control) to pose this question

alienpresence wrote:When you consider that atheism is such a chronically small minority then surely part of this is because it isn't being reproduced. Is this a sex drive issue? What is your experience?

HA! I wish...

alienpresence wrote:When you consider that atheism is such a chronically small minority then surely part of this is because it isn't being reproduced. Is this a sex drive issue? What is your experience?

Mmmm, actually its a growing group with every generation. I think education and growing knowledge has something to do with it.

alienpresence wrote:When you consider that atheism is such a chronically small minority then surely part of this is because it isn't being reproduced.

Well I dunno, look at the facts. Since the time when being an atheist would mean being a social outcast or worst, the non-religious have become the fastest growing group in Western society. So if anything, that suggests it's the religious that aren't getting enough. Either that or their indoctrination techniques can no longer stand up to the scrutiny of free expression.

Exactly what has my not accepting uncritically unsupported assertions, when contemplating substantive questions about the world, got to do with the vigour of my testicular function?

Calilasseia wrote:Exactly what has my not accepting uncritically unsupported assertions, when contemplating substantive questions about the world, got to do with the vigour of my testicular function?

In some parts of the world you really need balls to speak out about atheism

Calilasseia wrote:Exactly what has my not accepting uncritically unsupported assertions, when contemplating substantive questions about the world, got to do with the vigour of my testicular function?

There must be no connection because that just gave me a hard-on.

Bella Fortuna wrote:

Calilasseia wrote:Exactly what has my not accepting uncritically unsupported assertions, when contemplating substantive questions about the world, got to do with the vigour of my testicular function?

There must be no connection because that just gave me a hard-on.

Its less of a "gee honey, without the Big Man in our lives I just can't be fragged getting off the couch and fucking your brains out" and more of a "hey honey, you remembered to take the pill so we don't have another baby and our lives are fragged because we have to support kids we cant afford. Now get off the couch so I can fuck your brains out".

Calilasseia wrote:Exactly what has my not accepting uncritically unsupported assertions, when contemplating substantive questions about the world, got to do with the vigour of my testicular function?

The rational intellect knows, I would assume, that there are too many people on earth and so sex might become hung up on a guilt trip at the prospect of over-population. This would mean less risk taking, less drive and ultimately less atheists. I'm not saying people are born to be atheists because their parents are but they take their attitudes and mores from the family unit.

Not sure. Could be. After all, I only think about sex ca. 33% of my waking time. The rest is evenly divided between "thinking of eating" and "thinking of all the rest".

Bella Fortuna wrote:

Calilasseia wrote:Exactly what has my not accepting uncritically unsupported assertions, when contemplating substantive questions about the world, got to do with the vigour of my testicular function?

There must be no connection because that just gave me a hard-on.

hehe, no your not the only one.

No, nothing to do with atheism, all to do with cancer pills I take. And I hate it. cause sex is important to m as the air I breath. Then fucken pills I have to take for 5 yrs makes me feel like a living dead.

alienpresence wrote:The rational intellect knows, I would assume, that there are too many people on earth and so sex might become hung up on a guilt trip at the prospect of over-population. This would mean less risk taking, less drive and ultimately less atheists. I'm not saying people are born to be atheists because their parents are but they take their attitudes and mores from the family unit.

You kinda messed up the title of the OP then, didn't you? The question is 'Does atheism reduce your willingness to procreate?'
I'll give a better argument why an atheist would not be willing to have children. If there is no purpose in life, no divine plan, no meaning, why procreate? Why live at all? This is the pitfall of nihilism, but as an atheist, you avoid it by providing your own answers. Each one of us has found something to keep us going. We each have our own reasons why to have children. Even if we don't think it through thoroughly, we are humans after all and the drive to procreate is quite strong.

Overpopulation comes into play much later in the process. Still, it's not that important an issue, because the problem is not the number of people, but the waste of resources.

alienpresence wrote:

Calilasseia wrote:Exactly what has my not accepting uncritically unsupported assertions, when contemplating substantive questions about the world, got to do with the vigour of my testicular function?

The rational intellect knows, I would assume, that there are too many people on earth and so sex might become hung up on a guilt trip at the prospect of over-population. This would mean less risk taking, less drive and ultimately less atheists. I'm not saying people are born to be atheists because their parents are but they take their attitudes and mores from the family unit.

There are many forms of birth control, and in the extreme there is also abortion. While the desire to avoid procreation could cause some people to avoid sex, I sincerely doubt the number is greater in atheists than religious (since they have less hang ups about the ways to avoid it mentioned earlier). The atheists I know have less hang ups about sex than most people and have no problem fulfilling their drives, and if the answers in this thread are any indication, that seems to be the norm.