Adverse effects of inceldom: Difference between revisions

Some evidence suggests sexlessness may negatively affect men's social status (but positively women's status).<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Males_gained_peer_status_through_having_had_sex_and_females_lost_peer_status</ref>

This stigma may result from the sexless being incompetent at something that comes to most as natural as breathing.

For example, women regard men who have sex as more attractive which may be related to assigning such men more social status (as women choose men based on their status).<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_are_more_attracted_to_men_who_are_already_in_relationships_than_single_men</ref> Women are more likely to state they would not want to date a virgin: 51% of women and 33% of men stated this in a survey by Match.com from 2013.<ref>http://match.mediaroom.com/2013-02-05-Singles-in-America-Match-com-Releases-Third-Annual-Comprehensive-Study-on-the-Single-Population</ref> The social desirability bias could even play a role here and make the truth even worse. Another study found virgins more likely felt stigmatized and also that women are more disinclined to date a virgin male.<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2016.1144042</ref>

[[Social constructionism|Social constructionists]] in the social sciences calls the sex difference in preference for female virgins and shaming of female promiscuity "a double standard" that should be eliminated, but it is acutally fairly straight forward to explain in terms of evolutionary psychology, namely by the simple fact that only women, but not men, are can be certain their offspring is theirs. Men preferring virgins reduces their chance of being cuckolded.