Shawn Ryan
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The second is- What's a toy somebody should start with?
Yeah, I don't think the guy's ever going to go, you know, if she does the signal, oh, she just wants something.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, that brings us to modern dating Gen Z in the loneliness crisis.
But before that, I have a polymarket thing.
You ready?
Do you know what polymarket is?
The US fertility rate up in Q1 2026.
Basically, they want to know, they're asking, do you think that the fertility rate is going to rise or fall in 2026?
And only 35% of people say that the fertility rate is going to rise.
65% say no.
CDC's Q1 2026 general fertility rate exceeds 53.3 births per thousand women aged 15 to 44.
The Q4 2025 baseline, excuse me, the crowd is pricing in a 65% chance that it falls again.
The US hit a record low of 53.1% in 2025.
down from 53.8 in 2024.
That's two decades of decline.
Gen Z is having less sex, less often and later, or not at all.
Dr. Tarr's research sits at the center of this.