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* Voluntary singles could be having casual sex otherwise and men who see prostitutes have sex, but may still count as [[incel#definition|incels]]. | * Voluntary singles could be having casual sex otherwise and men who see prostitutes have sex, but may still count as [[incel#definition|incels]]. | ||
* Long-distance relationships, or celibacy motivated by religion, career or [[environmentalism]] might be reported as [[volcel|volceldom]], but such systemic circumstances could in truth actually be involuntary. | * Long-distance relationships, or celibacy motivated by religion, career or [[environmentalism]] might be reported as [[volcel|volceldom]], but such systemic circumstances could in truth actually be involuntary. | ||
* Career-focused singles tend to report their singledom enables their career rather than their career | * Career-focused singles tend to report their singledom enables their career rather than them voluntarily forgoing sex to focus on their career.<ref>https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658059231</ref> | ||
Assuming some social desirability bias, there were likely '''around 15% to 30% millennial male incels''' in 2018,<ref>This figure was computed by arbitrarily subtracting a volcel rate among the sexless of ~25% for the lower bound and ~15% for the upper bound of the 2018 confidence interval and then rounding to the next multiple of 5 to get nice figures.</ref> possibly more as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, though around a third of this is 18-20 year olds. With 57 million millennial males, this amounts to 8-17 million male millennial incels, and two to three times as many in an unstable or no relationship, pointing to a substantial amount of sexually frustrated males. [[Menelaos Apostolou]] estimated that given about 30% of the adult population in the U.S. is single then, about 15% of the adult population is expected to be involuntary so.<ref name="apostolou2019"></ref> | Assuming some social desirability bias, there were likely '''around 15% to 30% millennial male incels''' in 2018,<ref>This figure was computed by arbitrarily subtracting a volcel rate among the sexless of ~25% for the lower bound and ~15% for the upper bound of the 2018 confidence interval and then rounding to the next multiple of 5 to get nice figures.</ref> possibly more as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}, though around a third of this is 18-20 year olds. With 57 million millennial males, this amounts to 8-17 million male millennial incels, and two to three times as many in an unstable or no relationship, pointing to a substantial amount of sexually frustrated males. [[Menelaos Apostolou]] estimated that given about 30% of the adult population in the U.S. is single then, about 15% of the adult population is expected to be involuntary so.<ref name="apostolou2019"></ref> | ||