Not sure that’s entirely true, although I agree that it’s partly true…
Poor countries, such as India, China, much of Africa and south America have no welfare system, which of course means no age pension.
People have large families to make sure they will have some one to care for them in old age. That way they won’t starve to death when they get too old to work. I think child mortality rates are high in such societies.
It is my understanding that in parts of India at least, anal sex is practiced as birth control.
I do agree that general education is a magic bullet to kill poverty. But an not convinced that sex education alone will do it.
Starvation is a very real fear for billions of people. This is not because there is not enough food to feed everyone. Enough food is produced to feed everyone world wide, but that doesn’t happen because of the world market economy.
WHEN the time comes that vastly more food needs to be produced, the farming of large animals for food will dwindle or cease completely. I suspect the farming of certain insects for food may become much more widespread.
I remember reading (I forget where) that the Pope of the day was warned against imposing celibacy on the clergy in the fifth century… As a far as I’m aware priests commonly had wives at least into the thirteenth century. There is no scriptural reason for clergy to be celibate as far as I know.
The religious sexual prudery and rules against sex have never been anything more than a form of social control. No surprise such rules are found in all major religions