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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 name="swedenMarriages">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> | 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 name="swedenMarriages">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, seemingly competing in maintaining a reputation as [[virgin]] in hopes of marrying [[hypergamy|hypergamously]]. | 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, seemingly competing in maintaining a reputation as [[virgin]] in hopes of marrying [[hypergamy|hypergamously]]. | ||
This | In opposition to the increasing trend in marriage age, however, the mean age of first sexual experience has ''receded'', presumably enabled by improved contraceptive methods.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Median-age-at-first-marriage-and-first-intercourse-1950-2000-United-States_fig1_225497779</ref> This leads to a paradoxical situation in which it is normal to have early sexual experience while socially approved sex within a [[marriage]] is only expected to take place extremely late (if at all). As a result, some will have sexual experience much later than others which may lead to [[sexual envy]]. | ||
Further, for K-selected races, current late marriage practices alone are not a strong [[evolutionary mismatch]], which also suggests 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 dress like [[whore]]s (possibly due to rising economic inequality), 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]] and rising sexlessness, 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. | |||
Genetic life history speed, is not the only factor determining marriage age as marriages have been fairly early in ancient China, commonly explained by economic necessity.<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12285484/</ref> Overall, however there is a correlation as Africa has particular early marriages (see the map on the right). | |||
{{see_also|[[Youngcel]] and [[Teen love pill]]}} | {{see_also|[[Youngcel]] and [[Teen love pill]]}} | ||