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*77% report being a healthy weight or underweight (only 23% report being overweight, which is far less than the general western population average). | *77% report being a healthy weight or underweight (only 23% report being overweight, which is far less than the general western population average). | ||
*57% report receiving a medical diagnosis labeling them as non-neurotypical or having a physical disability that impairs their normal daily functions. | *57% report receiving a medical diagnosis labeling them as non-neurotypical or having a physical disability that impairs their normal daily functions. | ||
==Incels in history== | |||
See also: https://incels.wiki/w/Protocel | |||
Due to inceldom representing a life circumstance or deprivation, as opposed to being a subculture, there have of course been many incels throughout human history. A famous story of historical inceldom is the tale of the rape of the Sabine women by the ancient Romans. | |||
According to Roman tradition, after the city of Rome was founded by the legendary Romulus, the city was originally inhabited by mainly male pioneers who had followed Romulus in establishing the city. Due to the lack of marriageable women, this lead to many Roman men being incel, due to a lopsided sex ratio. The elders of Rome planned to redress this by sending diplomats to foreign tribes asking for arranged marriages between their women and Roman men. However, the neighboring tribes of the Romans deeply distrusted the Romans, and feared their ascendant power. This led to Romulus devising a ruse; where he established a festival (Consualia) dedicated to a newly discovered god named Consus. He then invited several neighboring tribes to attend this festival. The entire population of a neighboring tribe named the Sabines apparently attended the festival. Romulus had previously arranged with his men that, when he gave the signal during a feast attended by the Sabines, they would violently spring into action and abduct and run off with the Sabine women. This mass rape led to a war between the Romans and the Sabines, which concluded with a peace treaty being concluded between the Romans and the Sabines, (with the Sabine women acting as intermediary's between their new Roman husbands and their Sabine male relatives), which resulted in the two tribes being united under Roman rule. | |||
Many prominent figures throughout history were provably incel or very likely incel, to briefly note a few: [[Beethoven]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Van Gogh]], [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]], [[Otto Weininger]] (likely, but not proven), the [[truecel|deformed]] [[manlet|dwarf]] companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammed, [[Julaybib]]<ref>https://www.islamstory.com/en/artical/3408730/Julaybib</ref> (who ascended through an arranged marriage prior to being killed in battle, after being described as "the one who had spent a lifetime in despair"), and likely many others. | |||
It is likely the term "Involuntary celibacy" was coined in 1739 by French writer and clergyman [[Antoine_Banier]]. The frequency in use of the term seemed to increase in the 19th century (in the modern sense)<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Incelosphere#Background</ref>, with a lull in usage of the term in the 20th century, before seeing a resurgence in interest in the topic the 1990s. | |||
== Special Types of incels == | == Special Types of incels == | ||