Motivating Men to Marry

Western governments are worried because people stopped marrying and procreating as before. Old people are entitled to pensions that somebody has to pay through taxes and that somebody seems to have disappeared. Importing young Africans is a poor solution as America is realizing.

The difficulty of getting men to marry was already well known in Greece of the Antiquity. Plutarch describes in The Life of Lycurgus the inducements he established:

"I mean the processions of nude girls, the competitions that young men watched, attracted not of an intellectual interest but a sexual one. In addition, Lycurgos placed civil disabilities on those who did not marry, for they were excluded from the Gymnopediae (*). In winter, they had to parade in circle in the agora and they had to sing a special song about themselves."

Even so, Spartans resisted marriage. Sparta, throughout its history, suffered from severe manpower difficulties. In the Battle of Leukra it could muster no more than a thousand soldiers against Boeotia, with its large and fertile population of subsistence farmers. That was its final show in history, after which Sparta retired to its starting point of four obscure hamlets in a remote valley.

(*)  Gymnopediae, the Naked Boys Festival, a closed competition/show staged by the boys of the agoge schools. May I presume that unmarried adult men were excluded because they were shamed as homosexuals? Greeks, like Brazilians, thought nothing of fucking boys, but hated old faggots.