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Women have a somewhat lower [[sex drive]], hence they tend to be the "bottleneck" when it comes sex and reproduction, and it guarantees there to be always a surplus of sexually starved males (i.e. a male-skewed [[operational sex ratio]]). For this reason, it would appear that women cannot be incels, but are mostly [[volcel]]s, since they have a lower need for sex, and in the rare case they are actually desperate for sex, they could simply overcome their coyness and attach themselves to the next best guy available, of which there is an infinite supply (see also [[Demographics#Women decide over celibacy rates|women decide over celibacy rates]]). | Women have a somewhat lower [[sex drive]], hence they tend to be the "bottleneck" when it comes sex and reproduction, and it guarantees there to be always a surplus of sexually starved males (i.e. a male-skewed [[operational sex ratio]]). For this reason, it would appear that women cannot be incels, but are mostly [[volcel]]s, since they have a lower need for sex, and in the rare case they are actually desperate for sex, they could simply overcome their coyness and attach themselves to the next best guy available, of which there is an infinite supply (see also [[Demographics#Women decide over celibacy rates|women decide over celibacy rates]]). | ||
There are various ways in which one can {{w|Steelmanning|steelman}} the femcel position: For example, there are some [[life history|fast-strategic]] men [[Chad|who never commit]], but only [[pump and dump]], who would readily give women sex, but would not be good partners and would not invest in the offspring at all; and men who seek out non-coy women the most may be the least committing. Further, historically, there was a great concern about women giving sex away easily, which was particularly driven by female [[intrasexual competition]] (gossip),<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.166</ref> and thus women would likely face a real reputational risks when giving up their coyness, which may drive some of them into inceldom, even though they could get sex easily. Furthermore, both men and women may be adapted for [[arranged marriage]],<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/147470491201000308</ref> and combined with their already greater coyness and [[hypoagency|diminished agency]] making it even more awkward and unnatural for women to simply 'date' someone, driving them into inceldom when they do not get married. Since women are less sociosexual, the degenerate emphasis on causal sex in contemporary culture may be even ''more'' of an evolutionary mismatch for women, at least to those who are [[life history|slow-life strategist]]s as per their genetic makeup (as also evidenced by their somewhat grater shift in marriage age compared to pre-industrial eras, see the figure below). | |||
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