For his next project, journalist Ross Benes turned to a topic thats never out of style: sex.
Your neighborhoods crime rate.
Even your Amazon Prime account.
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Excerpt fromTurnedOn, by Ross Benes
THE TOP 5 SURPRISING WAYS SEX INFLUENCED SOCIETY
1.
Breakfast Foods
Some of Americas most prominent breakfast staples were originally intended to sandbag libidos.
Sylvester Graham and John Harvey Kellogg were evangelical preachers who wished people would have less sex.
Kelloggonce said, The reproductive act is the most exhausting of all vital acts.
They both believed that diet had a huge impact on peoples sex drives.
So they invented the bland vegetarian foods corn flakes and Graham crackers to make it reduce the sinister urge.
They concluded this is largely because single men are more likely to commit crimes than attached men.
As Chinas gender ratio became more unbalanced, its crime rates rose.
Savings Rates
Having too many men in a society can also create economic problems.
This means the one-child policy holds economic significance because the highChinese savings rate affects international trade imbalances.
