AnonAutist
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Sad but true, if an oppressed and invisible minority with serious problems and lack of political capital (i.e. no politician can use the group to advance his own career) wants serious attention for its plight resorting to becoming troublemakers and terrorists is actually the way to get attention. Just something I thought of after May 23rd and the recent thread on the gigantic amount of bluepill lurkers on the forum. A lot of 'experts' are now watching and paying attention, but only after rare, extremely violent outward expressions of festering rage and pain induced by years of loneliness, prolonged rejection, atomization and social frustration.
From a very well written 2016 literature review paper on inceldom from the perspective of actual sociologists and sexuologists (not media and communication 'scholars' reviewing forum and social media postings through the lens of postmodern theory) admitting they were and remain mostly blind w.rt. inceldom question. Sexlessness and inceldom were previously only studied amongst the elderly, severely physically handicapped, sexless marriages and the very religious. Most academics in the past simply assumed that incels had the same opportunities as normies but simply choose to remain incel to focus on religion or on school work.
From Sexuality (and Lack Thereof) in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Review of the Literature by Boislard et al. (2016).
The reality is that nobody outside of the incel sphere actually understands, or has paid much attention until now. Terror working sets a bad precedent and just shows that institutional social science and journalism are severely lacking if it takes mass shooters to draw attention to structural problems.
From a very well written 2016 literature review paper on inceldom from the perspective of actual sociologists and sexuologists (not media and communication 'scholars' reviewing forum and social media postings through the lens of postmodern theory) admitting they were and remain mostly blind w.rt. inceldom question. Sexlessness and inceldom were previously only studied amongst the elderly, severely physically handicapped, sexless marriages and the very religious. Most academics in the past simply assumed that incels had the same opportunities as normies but simply choose to remain incel to focus on religion or on school work.
Virginity in Early Adulthood. Most of the literature on sexual delay and virginity in adolescence has documented their “positive” correlates. However, when virginity continues into early adulthood, different factors are likely to explain this delay. Since the paradigm on adolescent sexuality has shifted from a risky vision leading to abstinence-only sex education to the recognition of sexuality as a developmental task of the second decade of life, an increasing number of studies are now documenting the correlates and predictors of virginity in early adulthood. For instance, one study showed that adult virgins have higher odds of being overweight and of being perceived as physically unattractive [72]. Four additional studies reported that adult virgins have greater probabilities of never having been in a romantic relationship [47,68,73,74]. Moreover, in a qualitative study conducted among 82 involuntary celibate adults aged 18 to 64 years, Donnelly and colleagues [48] found that nearly all adult virgins never dated anyone, including in adolescence. Thus, findings converge to support the importance of romantic and sexual experiences during adolescence for ongoing romantic and sexual development in adulthood. Additionally, this study revealed that these adult virgins perceived themselves as being very shy and unable to establish social contacts, and reported body image issues, such as being overweight and perceiving their physical appearance to be an obstacle to their sexuality [48]. In summary, research on adulthood virginity, although embryonic, has started to uncover that there are several reasons for remaining a virgin in early adulthood, some relating to personal choices, and others being more egodystonic and linked to a lack of sexual opportunities.
Therefore, one of the issues for scholars focusing on virginity is the diversity among this population, and the distinction between youth who have never had dyadic erotic experiences, on the one hand, and those who abstain from coitus but engage in other partnered sexual behaviors, on the other. The latter are often referred to as “technical virgins” in the literature [75]. These individuals have partnered sexual repertoires that include various sexual experiences, like mutual touching of the genitals, oral sex, and more rarely anal sex, but refrain from engaging in penile-vaginal intercourse [75,76]. Various reasons can motivate this technical virginity, ranging from religiosity to wanting to avoid potential negative consequences of sexual activity [34], or waiting for the “right person” [75]. Sexual-minority youth who have never engaged in sexual intercourse with someone of the other-sex are also often confounded with heterosexual virgins if no questions on sexual orientation are asked [47]. Thus, technical virgins seem to be in different psychosexual developmental trajectories than those who never experienced any sexual contact with a partner because of difficulties to attract one, or of very little interest in sexual interactions [77]. Because most studies have conflated these two distinct populations, our knowledge on the prevalence and characteristics of emerging adults without any sexual experience with another person remains very limited [72].
From Sexuality (and Lack Thereof) in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Review of the Literature by Boislard et al. (2016).
The reality is that nobody outside of the incel sphere actually understands, or has paid much attention until now. Terror working sets a bad precedent and just shows that institutional social science and journalism are severely lacking if it takes mass shooters to draw attention to structural problems.
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