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'''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 was used in the [[Donnelly study|social sciences]]. | '''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 once again proves [[inceldom]] is not a new phenomenon at all such that others have come up with the term long before it was used 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> | 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> | ||