Are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen#Common_environmental_estrogens quietly crippling generation after generation of humans, for the past ~100 years, after organic chemistry at scale became a thing ?
At least to me it looks remarkable that these conditions appear together in this moment of history:
1) Millions of tons of xenoestrogens (BPA type) are produced yearly since at least 1980s. These substances are used, for example, as additives to various food-grade plastics and as a coating for store receipts.
2) Quantitative phenotypical correlates of masculinity - grip strength, anogenital distance - are known to decline in men after exposure to these substances: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=anogenital+distance+exposure . A more controversial personal observation: many males nowadays look weak & feminized, and quantitative phenotypical correlates of femininity decline in females (recently we see taller females with larger jaws) Also there is a quite well established observation that female age at menarche is falling.
3) LGBT rate is rising.
A hypothesis:
There is a causal relationship between 1 and 2,3 which works as follows: massive amounts of xenoestrogens in wastewater get into the potable water (and into bottled water via leaching from the plastic), pregnant females drink this water, and the substance disrupts fetal development in various ways. It is known, for example, that some of xenoestrogens are also partial androgen receptor 1 agonists. These activities - estrogenic and androgenic, are enough to disrupt both male and female fetuses, possibly producing population-scale outcome we are witnessing now.
I think there is no fun to be had if this is true. If carefully selected sex dimorphism of a species is reduced/ruined, both sexes become less attracted to each other, and this lowers their QoL and fertility.
If this is true, why is there so little public attention devoted to this problem ?
