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The Financial Times did a great podcast series called Hot Money about the original owners of the main porn sites and who owns them now, well worth a listen. A hell of a lot of porn videos are made in Czechia as well.

The second series is even better, the Kinahans, Super drug cartels including the mafia, luxury Dubai hotels and villas, and how the Iranian government was connected to his downfall.

You're right of course. Most of this kind of data is self-reported (if not completely fabricated) and therefore country comparisons are to be taken with a pinch of salt. In that regard maybe it shows that we're among the most honest men in Europe.

Some more detailed information here:

Well how big is your sample size? I think it makes sense. We need more inward migration from Africa is what we need, to boost our numbers.

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Funny then that the average height for black males in the US is lower than the average for white males.

Obviously they wanted slaves who would survive the voyage - a high proportion did not, but you couldn't really tell from a visual appraisal who would or would not. Slaves on the voyage died of dispair, they died of suicide, they died of infectious diseases. You couldn't really tell who would give way to any of these.

They didn't really care how long a slave might survive after sale at the market, beyond the fact that a slave who looked fit and strong would fetch a higher price at market. But it made sense to purchase and transport even slaves who were likely to fetch a lower price, so long as that price exceeded the cost of purchase and transport. (Plus, of course, those slaves were cheaper to purchase in the first place — what matters to the trader is not the absolute sale price, but the difference between the sale price and the purchase price.)

The main pricing factors were age and sex. Adolescent and young adult men fetched the highest prices. This didn't mean selecting for size or strength. A slave of the right age and sex but of average size/strength fetched a higher price that a slave who was too old, too young or too female, even if of above-average size/strength.

As for breeding slaves in the Americas/the Caribbean, there is no evidence of that slaveowners engaged any selective breeding for size or strength at all.

In particular the strongest males were paired with the healthiest females https://www.amazon.com/dp/1613738935/

It is true. Average height for white US males is 5'10". Average height for black US males is 5'9". Also, how would that also not apply to black people during the time of slavery? Do you think their owners were feeding them any more than they absolutely had to?

cite:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/06/americas-tallest-shortest-states/

 Medical examination data maintained by the CDC shows white (average height of 5-foot-10 rounded to the nearest inch) and black (5-foot-9) men tend to be significantly taller than Asian (5-foot-7) or Hispanic (5-foot-7) men.