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Edmund_Kemper
Disregard my larping efforts. I can’t change it.
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It’s honestly unknown if inceldom is increasing or not. Healthline writes a good article about this. It says that the percentage of men who said they haven’t had sex in the past year has increased to 30% in the 2010s. But I doubt it’s because of hypergamy or tinder. According to oldcels on here, hypergamy is nothing new, and has existed decades ago too. And only like 3% of Americans use Tinder (7 million Americans). In fact, the increasing delay of adulthood, excessive internet and social media use, and less frequent risky activity (eg less frequent driving, less frequent drinking) might be the cause of this all. It seems people are growing up a lot slower these days and as sex reportedly became less common among youngsters, so did drinking, driving, etc. less adolescents are driving and less drink alcohol. Also, social media has made a lot of men stay to themselves and be a replacement for sex for them.
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Twenge said that young adults may be having less sex because they’re taking longer to progress to adulthood.
“This includes the postponement of not just sexual activity but also other activities related to mating and reproduction, including dating, living with a partner, pregnancy, and birth,” she said. “However, these reproductive trends have not occurred in isolation; instead, they are part of a broader cultural trend toward delayed development. For example, adolescents in the 2010s were also less likely to drive, drink alcohol, go out without their parents, and work at paid jobs compared with adolescents in previous decades.”
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however, many believe that the ambiguity of the word “sex” and “sex partner” might cause the “increase” in inceldom.
Here’s a quote:
Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH, a sex and relationships researcher and director of the Sexual Health Promotion Lab at the University of Kentucky, told Healthline that while the study bases sexual inactivity on the survey question, “About how often did you have sex during the last 12 months?,” it does not provide a clear definition of sex.
“Some participants may have interpreted the terms have sex and sex partners using a definition of vaginal intercourse (or sex partners as referring only to relational partners), whereas others may have considered sex to include oral sex or mutual masturbation,” said Ueda.
“It’s possible that young men are having less penis-in-vagina intercourse but not actually engaging in less sexual activity,” Dr. Mark said. “So one of the potential explanations for a perceived decline in sexual activity is actually an increase in sexual diversity and acceptance of sexual variety.”
Cyndi Darnell, a clinical sexologist and sex therapist, agreed.
“While heteronormative assumptions of what constitutes so-called real sex remain the defining feature of sex, we omit all the other kinds of things people enjoy as sex,” Darnell told Healthline. “If we include sex with other genders, masturbation, oral sex, and anal sex, I am not sure the stats would say young men are having less sex. Perhaps they’d say young men are having more sex that’s pleasure-focused rather that replaying heteronormative scripts.”
although it seems excessive social media use might be a factor some studies show social media use causes more sexual activity
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Twenge said that young adults may be having less sex because they’re taking longer to progress to adulthood.
“This includes the postponement of not just sexual activity but also other activities related to mating and reproduction, including dating, living with a partner, pregnancy, and birth,” she said. “However, these reproductive trends have not occurred in isolation; instead, they are part of a broader cultural trend toward delayed development. For example, adolescents in the 2010s were also less likely to drive, drink alcohol, go out without their parents, and work at paid jobs compared with adolescents in previous decades.”
“
however, many believe that the ambiguity of the word “sex” and “sex partner” might cause the “increase” in inceldom.
Here’s a quote:
Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH, a sex and relationships researcher and director of the Sexual Health Promotion Lab at the University of Kentucky, told Healthline that while the study bases sexual inactivity on the survey question, “About how often did you have sex during the last 12 months?,” it does not provide a clear definition of sex.
“Some participants may have interpreted the terms have sex and sex partners using a definition of vaginal intercourse (or sex partners as referring only to relational partners), whereas others may have considered sex to include oral sex or mutual masturbation,” said Ueda.
“It’s possible that young men are having less penis-in-vagina intercourse but not actually engaging in less sexual activity,” Dr. Mark said. “So one of the potential explanations for a perceived decline in sexual activity is actually an increase in sexual diversity and acceptance of sexual variety.”
Cyndi Darnell, a clinical sexologist and sex therapist, agreed.
“While heteronormative assumptions of what constitutes so-called real sex remain the defining feature of sex, we omit all the other kinds of things people enjoy as sex,” Darnell told Healthline. “If we include sex with other genders, masturbation, oral sex, and anal sex, I am not sure the stats would say young men are having less sex. Perhaps they’d say young men are having more sex that’s pleasure-focused rather that replaying heteronormative scripts.”
although it seems excessive social media use might be a factor some studies show social media use causes more sexual activity