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The rate of U.K. incels has also risen considerably. Among 26-year-old millennials (born 1989-1990), i.e. in 2016, 12.5% had no sexual experience, but in previous generations it was only 5% at the same age.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5696417/Virgin-numbers-rise-UK-fear-intimacy.html</ref> | The rate of U.K. incels has also risen considerably. Among 26-year-old millennials (born 1989-1990), i.e. in 2016, 12.5% had no sexual experience, but in previous generations it was only 5% at the same age.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5696417/Virgin-numbers-rise-UK-fear-intimacy.html</ref> | ||
In a survey by YouGov from 2019, around 18% of men said they had no close friends. Only 12% of women said the same.<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041784</ref><ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7488709/One-five-men-no-friends-loneliness-epidemic-leaves-thousands-living-isolation.html</ref> | In a survey by YouGov from 2019, around 18% of men said they had no close friends. Only 12% of women said the same.<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041784</ref><ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7488709/One-five-men-no-friends-loneliness-epidemic-leaves-thousands-living-isolation.html</ref> | ||
== Incel and volcel categories == | |||
One can broadly distinguish different demographic groups that experience mating difficulties or voluntarily abstain from sex: | |||
* '''Late adult virgins:''' Virgins older than 30 are rare (1-2%)<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr036.pdf</ref> and they strongly differ from the overall population. | |||
** By far the most distinguishing feature of adult virgins aged around 28 years, is that about 50% identify as [[asexual]]s ([[volcel]]s) while only 1% of the overall population identifies as asexual.<ref name="haydon2013"></ref><ref name="asexuals"></ref> | |||
** Adult virgins are also a bit more likely overweight, low-functioning and/or physically unattractive when compared to [[sex haver]]s, and they tend to have markers of a slow [[life history]], e.g. lower engagement in risky behavior, later onset of puberty, are more often East Asian.<ref name="haydon2013"></ref> Further, there is an overrepresentation of women getting college degrees.<ref name="haydon2013"></ref> Overall, however, [[looks]] are only weakly related to sexual success.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320299645_The_challenge_of_starting_and_keeping_a_relationship_Prevalence_rates_and_predictors_of_poor_mating_performance</ref> | |||
* '''Early adult virgins:''' This category is increasingly common these days, with about half of U.S. 12th graders never having dated. This being a much larger demographic group than late adult virgins, it is expected to differ much less from the overall population. | |||
* '''Dry spells''': Even more common is the category of the sexually frustrated or those experiencing [[dry spell]]s with 51% of U.S. millenials not having had a steady partner in 2018, and roughly 30% reporting to be often or always lonely.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#30.25_of_millennials_are_often_or_always_lonely_and_22.25_have_no_friends</ref> Being a large share of the population, this group is expected to differ very little from the overall population. | |||
* '''Dead bedroom''': A special incel case is that of [[marcel|husbandcels]] in [[deadbedroomer|dead bedroom]] couples, as women lose their sex drive much sooner than men, especially when cohabiting closely.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_rapidly_lose_interest_in_sex_once_in_a_stable_relationship_or_living_with_a_man</ref> This affects about 10-20% of couples.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexless_marriage</ref> | |||
* '''By life history speed''': | |||
** Fast life history incels may be the most sexually frustrated and may be facing an [[evolutionary mismatch]] due to a recent decline in casual sexual behavior and related risky behavior during adolescence and early adulthood, or fast life history minorities living in a host population with a slow life history (see the [[#Race|race section]]). However, despite sexual activity during youth having declined in the U.S., a minority of fast life history strategists appears to be having more sex than ever at the same time.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#The_top_5-20.25_of_men_.28ie._.22Chads.22.29_are_now_having_more_sex_than_ever_before</ref> | |||
** Slow life history incels may also be facing an evolutionary mismatch, such as expecting [[arranged marriage|to be married]] as was common throughout history, but not getting married due to the recent decline in marriage norms,<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706</ref> or women getting college degrees [[hypergamy|refusing to date down]]. | |||
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