When syphilis was introduced to Europe, people had to learn to abstain for a very long time. When the rubber industry gave a decent response, a reversal took place.

Everyone was pooher and everyone was fucking like rabbits until the 19th century, when infant and child mortality declined. Only the development of medicine has made it possible for women not to be a biomass machine. Yes, for the modern man, syphilis is something terrible, and in a society where the cold is a deadly disease, where wars go every year, where you can be left without harvest and die of hunger simply because the wind did not blow clouds with rain as if it did not make sense, "the cult of death" has remained in Europe since then. A very small percentage of people abstained.