Secularization, condoms, the French demographic transition? Casanova was a celebrity of that era. He started using condoms in 1760. By 1789, most French clergymen were willing to accept the rule of the French secular state. Through the century, fertility in France plunged. Couples practiced withdrawal and came up with all sorts of other clever ways to get it on. France got a bit of a reputation. Consider deSade a man of his time. French GDP per capita soared. England didn't catch up for a century, and they had to industrialize to do it.
Secularization, condoms, the French demographic transition? Casanova was a celebrity of that era. He started using condoms in 1760. By 1789, most French clergymen were willing to accept the rule of the French secular state. Through the century, fertility in France plunged. Couples practiced withdrawal and came up with all sorts of other clever ways to get it on. France got a bit of a reputation. Consider deSade a man of his time. French GDP per capita soared. England didn't catch up for a century, and they had to industrialize to do it.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11698-021-00237-2
That was the wrong link, try: https://hal.science/hal-02318180/file/paper_secularization.pdf
*Looks at N-grams
This 200-ish years cycle of "celeb worship" looks awefully tied to everything from cult(ure) to poltical climates. https://www.secretorum.life/p/the-cult-deficit-analysis-and-speculation-0aa https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-elite-overproduction-hypothesis https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-cyclic-theory-of-subcultures
Is this the new French Revolution? Why are those artists making guillotines on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhOMJ-pNVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZQjmfOkjYE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QabNs8WN-x4