Demographics of inceldom: Difference between revisions

Historical data on age of marriage and reproduction suggests that late first marriages and late reproduction were not unheard of in history, especially in [[life history|k-selected]] societies such as Northwest Europe, with both sexes commonly only marrying in their mid-20s or early 30s.<ref>Patricia Crone (2015). Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World. Oneworld (Kindle Edition). p. 2747 (Kindle loc.).</ref> Evidence from Canada, the U.S., Sweden, Denmark and Germany suggest the [[boomer]] generation (Gen X in Europe) 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><ref>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heiratsalter_lediger_Frauen_in_Deutschland_1910-2013.png</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 before boomers. In the 17th to 19th century, women married about five years earlier compared to today's marriages (25 v 30).<ref name="roth2001">https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737#bodyftn16</ref> In the same data, delay of marriage and fertility rates roughly track economic trends. In times of economic hardship in the mid 17th century, English women married as late as 27, not far from 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, a lack of guidance and motivation toward reproduction and marriage, an emphasis on sexual [[promiscuity]] and freedom conflicting with adaptations for [[arranged marriage]], as well as increasing policing of human sexual behavior potentially creating [[approach anxiety]]. 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 disproportional prevalence of non-Whites among incels. The graph on the right suggests that this evolutionary mismatch, to the extent it exists, affects women more than men.