“ Doth the world wax barren through decrease of Generations, and become, like the Earth, less fruitfull heretofore? Doth the Blood lose the Heat or do the Sunbeams become waterish and less fervent, than formerly they have been, that men should be thus inflamed and persuaded on to lust? ”

─ Alexander Niccholes, “A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving”, 1615 ─