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The '''Donnelly Study'''<ref>http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~meeklesr/celibacy.html [http://archive.is/2t2iv Archive]</ref> was the first academic study to take the concept of involuntary celibacy seriously and has been cited dozens of times by academic literature, including peer-reviewed academic research. The study itself was also peer-reviewed and published in the The Journal of Sex Research<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490109552083</ref> (2001) . | The '''Donnelly Study'''<ref>http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~meeklesr/celibacy.html [http://archive.is/2t2iv Archive]</ref> was the first academic study to take the concept of involuntary celibacy seriously and has been cited dozens of times by academic literature, including peer-reviewed academic research. The study itself was also peer-reviewed and published in the The Journal of Sex Research<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490109552083</ref> (2001) . | ||
This study | This study introduced the use of the word incel as an academic sociological term. [[Alana|Alana's]] incel [[Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project|mailing list]] was coordinating with a professor of sociology [[Denise Donnelly]] and a team of Georgia State University researchers to use her community as a beginning for research on the causes of involuntary celibacy in early 1999. The study was co-authored by sociologist and professor Elizabeth Burgess who, as late as 2014, had described incel forums as "valuable". | ||
== | ==Definition of incel== | ||
'Involuntarily celibate' is a valid academic sociological term | 'Involuntarily celibate' is a valid academic sociological term that was portmanteaued/abbreviated by [[Alana]] and subsequently popularized in Donnelly's study, referring to people who would like to have a sexual or romantic partner but can't find one for six months or more. The date may seem arbitrary, but there had to be a cutoff point, and [[Denise Donnelly]] chose six months as that factored in that some sexually active people go weeks without sex, and people start to worry about their sex lives after a certain period longer than that period. | ||
==The Study== | ==The Study== | ||