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He describes the social ills caused by involuntary celibacy as (among other things) an increase in crime among celibate men, involuntarily celibate men withdrawing from contributing to society ("being unsocial against their will"), falling birth rates, and he generally continues in this manner describing celibacy as being deleterious to social cohesion. | He describes the social ills caused by involuntary celibacy as (among other things) an increase in crime among celibate men, involuntarily celibate men withdrawing from contributing to society ("being unsocial against their will"), falling birth rates, and he generally continues in this manner describing celibacy as being deleterious to social cohesion. | ||
After briefly considering the legalization of polygamy as a solution to involuntary celibacy in women (soon to be exacerbated, as he warns, by the change in the gender ratio due to a decimation of an entire generation of young men in the First World War), he proposes the implementation of economic incentives to marry (such as tax breaks for the married), disincentives towards singlehood (such as bachelor taxes), increasing the minimum wage substantially, the social encouragement of marriage as a transcendent social ideal to be praised and aspired to by all, and the shaming and vituperation of what he calls "pseudo-celibacy" (promiscuity outside of marriage) as possible solutions to involuntary celibacy in both sexes. | After briefly considering the legalization of polygamy as a solution to involuntary celibacy in women (soon to be exacerbated, as he warns, by the change in the gender ratio due to a decimation of an entire generation of young men in the First World War), he proposes the implementation of economic incentives to marry (such as tax breaks for the married), disincentives towards singlehood (such as bachelor taxes), increasing the minimum wage substantially, the social encouragement of marriage as a transcendent social ideal to be praised and aspired to by all, and the shaming and vituperation of what he calls "pseudo-celibacy" (promiscuity outside of marriage) as possible solutions to involuntary celibacy in both sexes. | ||
Gallichan was also a eugenicist who advocated in the book for the permanent sterilization of the "mentally degenerate". | |||
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