Blackpill A Large-Scale Scientific Study on the Genetic Correlations of Sexlessness & Childlessness (Blackpill is Affirmed by Science Yet Again)

[ResidentHell]

A large-scale study on sexlessness and its connection to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA, was published this summer of 2024. Most of it is water, but I cited it because it seems to be scientific evidence that is quite contrary to the rhetoric and anecdotal stuff that is often spouted by women and bluepilled normies / incels-in-denial on Youtube, Reddit and Tiktok

The research paper is titled, “Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA”

Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA

Romantic (typically sexual) relationships are important to personal, physical, mental, social, and economic wellbeing, and to human evolution. Yet little is known about factors contributing to long-term lack of intimate relationships. We investigated phenotypic and genetic correlates of never...

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The abstract:

Romantic (typically sexual) relationships are important to personal, physical, mental, social, and economic wellbeing, and to human evolution. Yet little is known about factors contributing to long-term lack of intimate relationships. We investigated phenotypic and genetic correlates of never having had sex in ~400,000 UK residents aged 39 to 73 and ~13,500 Australian residents aged 18 to 89. The strongest associations revealed that sexless individuals were more educated, less likely to use alcohol and smoke, more nervous, lonelier, and unhappier

Sexlessness was more strongly associated with physical characteristics (e.g. upper body strength) in men than in women. Sexless men tended to live in regions with fewer women, and sexlessness was more prevalent in regions with more income inequality. Common genetic variants explained 17% and 14% of variation in sexlessness in men and women, with a genetic correlation between sexes of 0.56. Polygenic scores predicted a range of related outcomes in the Australian dataset. Our findings uncover multifaceted correlates of human intimacy of evolutionary significance

But what does genetic correlation measure? According to the authors, this is what it measures:

Genetic correlations measure the extent to which genetic effects are shared with other traits (page 11)

Genetic correlations are especially useful in the context of evolutionary analyses, because these are more relevant to evolutionary responses to selection than are phenotypic correlations (page 3)

So it seems genetic correlation is more concerned with evoulutionary responses to sexual selection, than with phenotypical correlations


These are charts from the research article. They show the genetic correlations of sexlessness // childlessness with other social, ecological, economic or psychological factors:

There is a positive genetic correlation between sexlessness and childlessness. People who don’t often have sex tend to have less children or zero children (water). But there is more data from the charts which I have attempted to summarize to the best I can


The Positive Genetic Correlations of Sexlessness & Childlessness

There is a positive genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and number of sex partners for men - A man with less sex partners indicates a higher likelihood of childlessness / sexlessness (but this doesn't apply to women with less sex partners)

There is a positive genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and IQ / educational attainment - Higher IQ / Above-average intelligent people tend to have less sex and less children. As already affirmed in other blackpill-related sources of data, intellect is often not treated as a sexually desirable trait in men

Regarding number of sexual partners, intelligence might attract higher quality mates rather than a greater quantity, and regarding number of children, more intelligent people might focus on professional careers at the expense of having children (which would not have been a factor in the evolutionary past). But these rebuttals could not explain away the genetic correlation of intelligence (and education and income) with sexlessness. Therefore, our findings strengthen the case against the sexual selection hypothesis of intelligence (along with other data indicating that high intelligence is not generally found attractive) (page 18 – 19)

There is a positive genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG). Apparently SHBG is a protein that regulates testosterone and estrogen in the human body, also affects spermatogenesis

There is a positive genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and ASD, anorexia and age at smoking initiation - If you’re autistic, anorexic or started smoking at an early age, you’re more likely to be sexless or childless – The NTpill / autismpill has some significance here

There is a positive genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and suicidal ideation, self-rated health and age of mother / father upon their death - The younger your parents were when they died, the more likely you are to be sexless or childless

There is a correlation between the age of first sexual intercourse, and likelihood of sexlessness / childlessness - The earlier the age of virginity loss, the less likely of being childless / sexless (water)

There is a positive genetic correlation between wealth and likelihood of sexlessness / childlessness - Wealthier people are less likely to be childless / sexless (water)


The Negative Genetic Correlations of Sexlessness & Childlessness

There is a negative genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and frequency of friend / family visits, extroversion, friends-relationship satisfaction, subjective wellbeing - Possibly it’s saying that higher frequency of friend / family visits correlates with lower odds of sexlessness & childlessness etc.

There is a negative genetic correlation between childlessness and number of sex partners for women – If a woman has less sex partners, it does not indicate they have a higher likelihood of childlessness. This is quite the opposite for men, unironically

There is a negative genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and chronotype morningness - Going to bed earlier and waking up earlier than other people has a negative genetic correlation with sexlessness & childlessness? This seems quite in line with actually JFL

There is a negative genetic correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and ADHD / MDD, and PTSD. In other words a person with ADHD, MDD or PTSD does not have a higher likelihood of sexlesness childlessness

There is virtually no correlation between childlessness and placing meaning on one’s own life (bluepillers GTFO)

There is a negative genetic correlation between sexlessness / childlessness and use of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco - People who smoke or drink alcohol less often, are more likely to be childless / sexless

There is a slight negative correlation between childlessness / sexlessness and loneliness. It seems the most logical way to interpret this is, higher odds of childlessness / sexlessness correlates with lower odds of loneliness



There are some other positive and negative genetic correlations to do with visible body traits, such as height, BMI, birth weight, body fat, waist-hip ratio, like having a taller body height, or having a higher weight at birth, correlates with lower odds of sexlessness or childlessness etc.

But the study claims it does not explore the full extent of the issue, even though the study incorporated use of summary stats on the GWAS Catalog (a massive online catalog that "compiles data of genome-wide association studies"). According to the authors, the methodology used in this study is adequate, but the methodology was somewhat limited because it did not really explore the effect of gene-environment correlations on sexlessness and childlessness

The authors also claim that further research via other methodologies may be required for a more extensive understanding on the subject regarding sexlessness and its correlation with genetic traits. This study is adequate in respect to conventional scientific standards, but there is more that is yet to be explored in relation of this subject on genetic correlations in sexlessness & childlessness

A strength of our study was that we were able to capitalise on publicly available GWAS summary statistics, allowing estimates of genetic correlations of sexlessness with other traits that were not assessed in the UK Biobank itself. The genomic data also enabled examination of questions that are impossible to answer with phenotypic data only. For example, we found that male and female sexlessness were associated with overlapping but not identical genetic markers; similarly, the genetic markers associated with sexlessness overlapped with those associated with childlessness among people who had had sex. Nonetheless, genetic correlations computed from GWAS summary statistics must be interpreted with caution. Genetic correlations between complex traits can reflect different types of pleiotropy, but also arise through gene-environment correlations

The fact that the sexlessness polygenic score correlated in the predicted direction with the related variables in an independent Australian sample gives us confidence that our GWAS results are tapping into real variance in sexlessness and not only structural artifacts of the UK population. In addition, our UK-Biobank within-versus between-family polygenic score analysis revealed that the GWAS signal only captures gene-environment correlation effects to a very small degree, at least in terms of environments that differ between families. Still, as already mentioned, there is much uncertainty about the causal processes underlying the observed genetic (and phenotypic) correlations, and this limitation must be kept in mind when interpreting the findings. Research using different methodologies and different populations may help to triangulate a deeper causal understanding of the social and biological underpinnings of sexlessness (page 19)

There are 11 co-authors for this research paper; most of the authors are claimed to be associated with universities and research institutes in the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Sweden and Czech Republic. Basically this looks like a collaborative research project involving researchers from mostly European institutions. Although this paper is a preprint, which means it likely hasn’t been peer-reviewed. But the authors seem to be veterans in this area of research, and they appear to have several journal article publications for previous work. Also one of the co-authors is from University of Queensland, which ranks among the top 50 universities worldwide according to QS World University Rankings and U.S. News & World Report Rankings

 

[Grodd]

It's truly fucking ridiculous that people still deny the blackpill it is literally everywhere the reason science backs it up is because it's the reality the blackpill is seen everywhere

 

[Left4DeadKoala]

It's truly fucking ridiculous that people still deny the blackpill it is literally everywhere the reason science backs it up is because it's the reality the blackpill is seen everywhere

 

[sexualeconomist]

Ok can you summarise this for normoids I'll post this on reddit