Kofh asks, "Does unregulated, independent personal, and individual sexual freedom have an negative effect on the society as a whole, ultimately tied to if not creditrd with the fall of empire?"
Absolutely not. If anything, the opposite could be said to be true. For example, the British Empire. Victorian England was anything but sexually "free".
"At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known." (
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/intro/intro.htm)
Queen Victoria ruled from 1837-1901.
"She ruled over 1/4 of the earth's land surface. Built up over centuries the empire was dissolved in decades." (
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/haywardlad/)
In the early 1800's, protestant sexual mores had spread across Britain creating a society of little, if any, sexual openness.
I believe we can put that sexual hypothesis to bed once and for all, Mr. Kofh.
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