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The vast majority of men are not asexual or aromantic, so most men that have never been in a relationship are circumstantially lonely rather than because of preference. According to the Center for Disease Control, most Americans have penis-and-vagina intercourse by age 17.<ref>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr036.pdf</ref> Assuming incel to be defined very broadly such that all lifelong single men are incels, then this includes [[demographics of inceldom#Numbers|15-30% of 18-30 year old American men]], a third of which are 18-20 year old American men. Since a very large share of men who have not had any romantic experiences by age twenty will end up doing so at later time, only a minority of these people are likely actually "involuntarily celibate" in the strictest definitions of the term. A better estimate would look at only older heterosexual men. The same CDC report says that 10% of American men age 24 report having no sexual experience. In Japan, a more extreme case, 25% of men over the age of 30 are virgins.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11662500/Rise-of-Japans-middle-aged-virgins-a-quarter-of-over-30s-have-never-had-sex.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11662500/Rise-of-Japans-middle-aged-virgins-a-quarter-of-over-30s-have-never-had-sex.html]</ref> It's thus possible, then, that most 30-year old American or Japenese men have an incel male acquaintance, even if that acquaintance doesn't personally identify as such.