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Light Pollution is Birth Control?

I saw a movie over the weekend called "The Sunshine State", which is about developers moving into a pristine Florida barrier island environment threatening not only the wildlife there but the way of living there that people who lived there had experienced for decades. A woman who has lived her life in the island area meets a man who is one of the developers, and the two go out to a deserted locale which however has blaring metal halide lights all over the place, making it well lit and unsuitable for lover's lane activities. So she says something like "These lights were made for security, but also for birth control." Light pollution as birth control. What an interesting observation.