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== | ==Adverse effects of inceldom== | ||
{{main_article|[[Adverse effects of inceldom]]}} | {{main_article|[[Adverse effects of inceldom]]}} | ||
[[File:Securityquestions.jpg|thumb|The awkwardness of inceldom]] | [[File:Securityquestions.jpg|thumb|The awkwardness of inceldom]] | ||
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Another study found that delayed sexual activity "creates health risks by impeding development of the emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal skills that are crucial to satisfactory sexual functioning and general well-being."<ref>https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/78bmza/the-cost-of-losing-your-virginity-late</ref> | Another study found that delayed sexual activity "creates health risks by impeding development of the emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal skills that are crucial to satisfactory sexual functioning and general well-being."<ref>https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/78bmza/the-cost-of-losing-your-virginity-late</ref> | ||
Of course, the causality is not clear in most of these studies, meaning it is not clear whether isolation creates health problems or unhealthy people are more likely socially isolated. But some studies do show causal link. | Of course, the causality is not clear in most of these studies, meaning it is not clear whether isolation creates health problems or unhealthy people are more likely socially isolated. But some studies do show causal link. | ||
==Life as an incel== | |||
The public is strongly in favor of incels remaining asexual beings, which is likely driven by latent [[eugenics|eugenic]], [[racism|racist]], [[lookism|lookist]], or [[NTism|NTist]] concerns, but increasingly also by environmentalist concerns (overpopulation). | The public is strongly in favor of incels remaining asexual beings, which is likely driven by latent [[eugenics|eugenic]], [[racism|racist]], [[lookism|lookist]], or [[NTism|NTist]] concerns, but increasingly also by environmentalist concerns (overpopulation). | ||
The state has an interest to prevent people from reproducing who are unfit for raising children, yet it is amazingly ineffective at prohibiting those who are unfit from doing so, e.g. the most anti-social males have a disproportionately greater amount of children<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12625439</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814000774</ref> and sexual partners.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120513221622/http://abacon.com/ellis/tables/ch8.pdf</ref> | The state has an interest to prevent people from reproducing who are unfit for raising children, yet it is amazingly ineffective at prohibiting those who are unfit from doing so, e.g. the most anti-social males have a disproportionately greater amount of children<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12625439</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814000774</ref> and sexual partners.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120513221622/http://abacon.com/ellis/tables/ch8.pdf</ref> | ||