Causes of celibacy: Difference between revisions

** Being bullied, ostracized and rejected by one's peers or being socially withdrawn during childhood are predictors of adulthood virginity.<ref>Boislard, M.A., Poulin, F. & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2011, March). Childhood predictors of adulthood virginity: A 10-year prospective study. Poster session presented at the Eastern & Midcontinent Joint Region Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Philadelphia, PA.</ref><ref>https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/sex-life-the-american-male/201104/involuntary-sexual-virgins-the-latest-research</ref> The vast majority of users on [[incels.co]] said they were bullied at some point in their lifetime, whether it was during childhood, adolescence or adulthood, and many regard themselves as autistic (see [[demographics]]).

** Being physically [[Uglyceldom|unattractive]]. In one study, people of either sex with below-average attractiveness had a 1.5-3x higher chance of remaining virgin during early adulthood compared to people of above-average attractiveness, however all 26 very unattractive guys in the study did have sex by the time they were around 28 years old, and being good looking appears to be slightly more useful for women than it is for men in lowering the chances of adult virginity.<ref name="haydon2013"></ref> Among adult virgins aged 28, only 0-3% of men and 1-8% of women were judged as "very unattractive" (a [[decile|two]] or less, p = 0.02).<ref name="haydon2013"></ref> Add Health data also suggests that unattractive men are not more likely see prostitutes. However, half of the adult virgins in this study having reported to have no interest in sex, and it is unknown whether attractive virgins were more likely volcels than unattractive virgins. Looks are strongly linked to initial romantic interest, however only moderately to romantic initiation, and only weakly to long-term romantic success and in some samples even unrelated to lifetime [[reproductive success]], further, looks were also unimportant in arranged marriage decisions which used to be the primary form of human mating (see [[beauty]]).

** Premature birth<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/babies-premature-romantic-partners-sex-parents-adults-1448938</ref>

** [[medcel|Disease]], e.g. in a German sample, those with poor general health were only around 40% as likely to have had sex in the past four weeks compared to those in good health,<ref>https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/215850/Gesundheit-sexuelle-Aktivitaet-und-sexuelle-Zufriedenheit</ref> though in a student sample, immunocompetency was not linked to mating performance<ref>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.160603</ref>