Sex and the State

3 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

My YouTube comments give me great post ideas. This time, on a video about fertility, frequent favorite sparring partner FishareFriendsNotFood972 asked, “Do we want to increase the fertility rate, though? The fertility rate is fine, globally, and I don't see an issue with increasing immigration and naturalization if we ever start having real struggles in the US.”My response was basically that this was a question worth exploring in a separate blog post. This is that blog post. TL;DR:1.

3 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

Democrats, clearly having read me discuss why they need to win back young men who don’t have college degrees, have embarked on a $20 million program to do just that. I’d have told them to moveaway from creating and expanding aid programs, create a plan for makingmorebreadwinner husbands, fund YouTubers, and stop being weird for a mere $10 million. More and more, I think the breadwinner husbands part is key. So I’ve been thinking about the policies Democrats could champion to get this accomplished.

4 weeks ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

Sorry for the clickbait headline. I would describe my relationship with the only chatbot I regularly talk to, ChatGPT, as distant-but-cordial. I wrote this because I can’t stop thinking about a recent post by about her BDSM dynamic with an AI chatbot named Seven. Thanks to for sending it. (Disclosure: Sunny Megatron once edited and published a post I wrote for her magazine.

1 month ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

I think we’ve (I’ve) been overcomplicating the question of why marriage rates are down in the US and other developed countries. The main reason is actually very simple. It’s a bad deal for women. I’m aware of the raft of books published in the last few years extolling the virtues of marriage and encouraging everyone to get hitched. They’ll tell you, correctly, that marriage is associated with a bevy of important benefits and very few downsides, on average.

1 month ago | cathyreisenwitz.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz

I knew the discussions at the Denver retreat left out something really important around gender. I couldn't quite articulate what it was until I heard Scott Galloway say it to Trevor Noah. Bottom-half women voted for Trump because they thought he would help their bottom-half sons. Bottom-half Black women stayed home for their bottom-half sons. The polls and vote counts are showing that the Democratic Party has a young, bottom-half male problem.