Not Kidding

“Paranoia has ensued. In the past year, hundreds of men in the Central African Republic have reported the presumably delusional belief that their genitals have gone missing. In Nigeria, where the fertility rate has fallen from seven to four, a widely read tabloid blamed a conspiracy of perverts in the French intelligence services who had been ‘using secret nanotechnology innovations to steal penises from African men.'” Those responses are a little extreme but the broader issue is interesting. “Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?” The New Yorker: The End of Children.