Timeline for Hogwarts: So why aren't the kids "doing it"?
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| Jul 12, 2014 at 17:35 | comment | added | user15742 | It's not the fighting and leaving for war that increases sexuality. It's the devastation and death aftermath of war and other disasters. When there is a death in a family, for example, the survivors often have an urge to procreate. Would this extend to the teens at hogwarts, idk, but I think probably not. Sex for teens is rarely about procreation. | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 19:26 | comment | added | joshbirk | Fair point, but only after a massive drop off post the brief WWI boom, and nothing like the sustained increase post WWII, until postwar births may have increased by they were still low by national averages until the war. And note the sudden drop prior to the WWI boom, if all war makes for great sexy time, why was't one long contious spike? A similar drop appears during the WWII era. If war makes for greater sexual activity - these periods should be massive hills with no valleys | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 18:34 | comment | added | Dan Esparza | @joshbirk Take a closer look at the graph in the article you linked to. WWII was from 1939-1945. While there was a further increase in birthrate after the war, there is a SHARP increase starting in 1939. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 22:37 | comment | added | joshbirk | I think Snopes is on my side there, especially since my browser would not load the More Detail site. I have linked the phrase to an article on Combat Stress which points to decreased sexual desire. It is also a common symptom of PTSD. These are students who very school is under attack while they are in it - not soldiers on shore leave with easy access to whorehouses. The difference is significant. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | David Richerby | Re questions about people having more sex in stressful times, there was a statistically significant increase in the birth rate in New York after 9/11. (More detail; snopes.com, on the other hand, disagrees.) | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 20:51 | history | edited | joshbirk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2014 at 20:43 | comment | added | joshbirk | I look forward to that discussion - but even from what is there already, I find the argument wanting. It's not like Hogwart's were making prostitutes available and sending Harry off to shore leave. These students didn't get to leave the battlefield for R&R (and sex), Hogwart's was the battlefield. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 16:46 | comment | added | Mr.Mindor | Seems like a good question for History.stackexchange.com | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 2:21 | comment | added | joshbirk | @WhatRoughBeast - true, but if the theory is "war makes for sexy time", then what we should have seen was War Illegitimate Baby Boom. Instead, globally after two world wars we see post war pregnancy booms. I really can't see how the threat of Voldemort served as an aphrodisiac. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 0:30 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | @joshbirk - well, the fact that most healthy young men were off fighting may have had something to do with it. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 22:54 | comment | added | joshbirk | And @Peteris, if there is any evidence contrary to that trend in general - lets remember the US Baby Boom occurred after WWII, not during. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 22:44 | comment | added | joshbirk | @Himarm, I am intentionally only discussing the period of time as described by the books and movies, outside of that we're just adding conjecture onto conjecture for a scenario which already borders on pure speculation. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 22:43 | comment | added | joshbirk | @Peteris - Maybe in romance novels, but I disagree in reality. War is stress, stress is a huge component in sexual dysfunction. You might be more emotional, but you aren't going to be horny. We aren't talking about couples who need to get in some action to insure they might have kids if dad never makes it home - we're talking about teens experimenting for the first time. The former is the WWII scenario, I think, and I really don't think it applies here. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 21:59 | comment | added | Peteris | @Himarm well, it does apply to the whole time that matters - i.e., the years during the story where the described students are of the appropriate age. The period after that isn't described in detail, and before the 'war' they're young enough so that the 'viewpoint' characters wouldn't see much, if any, of the hogwarts sex. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 21:44 | comment | added | Peteris | 'Wartime' and the related fear, emotional stress & pressure would generally be an accelerating factor, making teenagers reach emotional adulthood (or the conviction that they have reached it) faster. In such a situation it would be far more likely for teenagers to experiment, and less likely to postpone or restrict things. "Going off to war" - in either literal or figurative sense - is a powerful instinctive reason to have sex now, while you still can. I won't dig for citations, but both biology and historical evidence (say, during WW2 right before war went over those places) supports this. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 21:31 | history | answered | joshbirk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |