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'''Antoine Banier''' seems to | '''Antoine Banier''' was a French clergyman (1673–1741) and seems to have been the first author to have ever used the term "involuntary celibacy" within the corpus of books that are searchable on Google Books. It could well be that even older documents mention this term or a very similar one, which may have been lost, not digitalized or wrongly digitalized etc. Anyhow, this proves [[inceldom]] is not a new phenomenon at all such that others have come up with the term long before it became popular in the [[Donnelly study|social sciences]]. | ||
In a 1739 book he described [[inceldom]] as a form of imprisonment which he referred to as "yoke". He also described it as a form of suffering and anguish, as "groan". The term was used in the following excerpt from The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History, Volume 3:<ref>https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kHgno9bqs4UC&pg=PA527&dq=%22involuntary+celibacy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGrMy9z4neAhUJJsAKHfVJCeEQ6AEIODAD#v=onepage&q=%22involuntary%20celibacy%22&f=false</ref> | |||
{{Quote|The custom of the Ancients in their marriages was quite different from that of the age wherein we live: large gratifications were given to the young ladies whom they were to marry, and even to their parents, whereas it is very rare now-a-days for one to marry a woman without a portion. Homer and several others, mention this Custom, and would to God it were still in Fashion: How many young Women who groan under the Yoke of '''involuntary Celibacy''', would find Husbands to make them happy, did not the Avarice of those husbands reduce them to the calamities wherein ixion was involved.|The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History, Volume 3}} | {{Quote|The custom of the Ancients in their marriages was quite different from that of the age wherein we live: large gratifications were given to the young ladies whom they were to marry, and even to their parents, whereas it is very rare now-a-days for one to marry a woman without a portion. Homer and several others, mention this Custom, and would to God it were still in Fashion: How many young Women who groan under the Yoke of '''involuntary Celibacy''', would find Husbands to make them happy, did not the Avarice of those husbands reduce them to the calamities wherein ixion was involved.|The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History, Volume 3}} | ||