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===The commodification of sex=== | ===The commodification of sex=== | ||
Sex IS commodified, it's not about incels misframing it. This happened as soon as agriculture was invented and men started hoarding the means of production) Before, if you were a sexual loser, you were because you got wrestled and killed to death, not because you didn't amass resources. | Sex IS commodified, it's not about incels misframing it. This happened as soon as agriculture was invented and men started hoarding the means of production) Before, if you were a sexual loser, you were because you got wrestled and killed to death, not because you didn't amass resources. | ||
===The theoretical availability of | ===The theoretical availability of safe and non-reproductive sex.=== | ||
In past civilization, sex was very dangerous and you wouldn't really want to engage in it if you didn't want to spread your genes. Now theoretically it's not dangerous, so there should in theory be no safety reason for barrier-of-access, making it in theory seem like something that doesn't need to be guarded. | In past civilization, sex was very dangerous and you wouldn't really want to engage in it if you didn't want to spread your genes. Now theoretically it's not dangerous, so there should in theory be no safety reason for barrier-of-access, making it in theory seem like something that doesn't need to be guarded. | ||
===Lack of dating avenues=== | ===Lack of dating avenues=== | ||
In a society which still (rightly) holds sex to be very meaningful and desirable, society now gives no men any societally sanctioned avenues to achieving it. Explicit prostitution is banned and housing (where one could theoretically have sex) is prohibitively extremely expensive while sex is enforced by law as to be done only in private. | In a society which still (rightly) holds sex to be very meaningful and desirable, society now gives no men any societally sanctioned avenues to achieving it. Explicit prostitution is banned and housing (where one could theoretically have sex) is prohibitively extremely expensive while sex is enforced by law as to be done only in private. | ||