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In data from Finland (see the [[#Finland|Finland section]]), women have become twice as likely to not have been in love with their first sex partner (from 82% down to nearly 39%) over the course of over 80 years, whereas men's answers remained unchanged around 50%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeYts4AzRUo</ref> This may reflect that young women more often are promiscuous like men, and just engage in sex for near-term gratification. But a number of other explanations are conceivable, e.g. that women's love may require a [[orgams for resources|resource dependence]]. A change in promiscuous behavior, however, is also evidenced by later-born women also more readily say they'd be willing to have sex without being in love (up from 20% to around 80%), also in the Finnish data. | In data from Finland (see the [[#Finland|Finland section]]), women have become twice as likely to not have been in love with their first sex partner (from 82% down to nearly 39%) over the course of over 80 years, whereas men's answers remained unchanged around 50%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeYts4AzRUo</ref> This may reflect that young women more often are promiscuous like men, and just engage in sex for near-term gratification. But a number of other explanations are conceivable, e.g. that women's love may require a [[orgams for resources|resource dependence]]. A change in promiscuous behavior, however, is also evidenced by later-born women also more readily say they'd be willing to have sex without being in love (up from 20% to around 80%), also in the Finnish data. | ||
== Are late marriage and reproduction unnatural? == | |||
Historical data on age of marriage and reproduction suggests that late first marriages and late reproduction were not unheard of in history, especially in k-selected societies. Evidence from Sweden and Canada suggest the [[boomer]] generation was an outlier with particularly early marriages and reproduction.<ref>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017_Sweden_mean_age_at_marriage_1871-2016-sv.png</ref><ref>https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002-eng.htm</ref> In Denmark, the current mean age at first birth of 29 is comparable to the 1850s.<ref>https://www.ejog.org/article/S0301-2115(19)30407-5/fulltext</ref> | |||
In England, the mean age at first marriage used to be considerably lower in the 17th to 19th century with women marrying about five years later compared to today's marriages (25 v 30), and with age at first marriage tracking economic trends.<ref name="roth2001">https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737#bodyftn16</ref> In times of economic hardship, English women married as late as 27, not far from to today's figure. | |||
This suggests, for k-selected races, current late marriage practices are not a strong [[evolutionary mismatch]], so the psychological burden of inceldom may rather lie in the [[FOMO|fear of missing out]] and [[sexual envy]] provoked by a highly promiscuous minority and women being allowed to dress like [[whore]]s, and potentially other evolutionary mismatches such as the lack of gender segregation and a lack of guidance and motivation toward reproduction and marriage. However, for more r-selected groups living in these societies marriage and reproduction as late does likely pose a substantial mismatch, which may explain the higher prevalence of non-Whites among incels. | |||
==Other countries== | ==Other countries== | ||