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There are a number of conceivable causes for these trends: | There are a number of conceivable causes for these trends: | ||
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'''[[Evolutionary mismatch]]''': Circumstances are so different from natural human nature that they adversely affect human sexuality, i.e. that our adaptation ''mismatch'' | '''[[Evolutionary mismatch]]''': Circumstances are so different from natural human nature that they adversely affect human sexuality, i.e. that our adaptation ''mismatch'' our environment. | ||
*'''Hyper-individualism''': Historically, marriages were predominantly arranged, so people may be confused with the entire notion of finding a partner without guidance by the parents etc. or community, especially since communities are increasingly deteriorating (possibly due to an aging population).<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706</ref> This may e.g. express in a decline of enforced monogamy, causing people to be married every later, a trend that really started to gain traction with the rise of [[political correctness]] in the mid 1990s.<ref>https://www.jsmp.dk/posts/2019-04-31-sexlessness/</ref> People may have an expectation to be married rather than making their own choices as arranged marriage was a very common occurrence in human's past, affecting around 70% of marriages in a large sample of contemporary foraging societies<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706</ref><ref>http://dieoff.com/_Biology/BeautyAndTheBeast.pdf 3.3.3. Does female choice drive male dominance competition?</ref> and arranged marriage were also prevalent in Medieval Europe.<ref>http://www.dfwx.com/medieval_cult.html</ref> As people less likely own land, are more replaceable and have less responsibility, there is a decreased need for arranging marriages as concepts like lineage and inheritance lose their meaning (in addition to liberalism, an overemphasis on personal freedom, destroying such institutions). | *'''Hyper-individualism''': Historically, marriages were predominantly arranged, so people may be confused with the entire notion of finding a partner without guidance by the parents etc. or community, especially since communities are increasingly deteriorating (possibly due to an aging population).<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706</ref> This may e.g. express in a decline of enforced monogamy, causing people to be married every later, a trend that really started to gain traction with the rise of [[political correctness]] in the mid 1990s.<ref>https://www.jsmp.dk/posts/2019-04-31-sexlessness/</ref> People may have an expectation to be married rather than making their own choices as arranged marriage was a very common occurrence in human's past, affecting around 70% of marriages in a large sample of contemporary foraging societies<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706</ref><ref>http://dieoff.com/_Biology/BeautyAndTheBeast.pdf 3.3.3. Does female choice drive male dominance competition?</ref> and arranged marriage were also prevalent in Medieval Europe.<ref>http://www.dfwx.com/medieval_cult.html</ref> As people less likely own land, are more replaceable and have less responsibility, there is a decreased need for arranging marriages as concepts like lineage and inheritance lose their meaning (in addition to liberalism, an overemphasis on personal freedom, destroying such institutions). | ||
*'''Emancipation and affirmative action''': Women's status inflation and affirmative action driven by a push for greater female workplace participation together with the [[sexual revolution]], creating an evolutionary novel situation in which many women occupy higher status than men.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> This results in demotivation of men, but in combination with [[hypergamy]] and women's preference to be [[female subordination|dominated]], it also leads women to be unsatisfied with most men. | *'''Emancipation and affirmative action''': Women's status inflation and affirmative action driven by a push for greater female workplace participation together with the [[sexual revolution]], creating an evolutionary novel situation in which many women occupy higher status than men.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> This results in demotivation of men, but in combination with [[hypergamy]] and women's preference to be [[female subordination|dominated]], it also leads women to be unsatisfied with most men. | ||