Sterile Polygamy

A new social equilibrium where sexual access concentrates among a subset of men while overall fertility falls — effectively a polygynous pattern without corresponding childbearing. It arises from accumulated legal, technological and cultural shifts (the Pill, workforce changes, dating apps) and produces political and demographic side‑effects: sexlessness, polarized mating markets, and collapsing fertility. — If correct, this reframes fertility decline, youth political realignment, and gender conflict as systemic outcomes of a covertly new mating system, forcing policymakers to consider family policy, labor markets and platform governance together.