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>degeneracy
The west has never been as virginal as now. You got tricked by the media into thinking threesomes and orgies are commonplace. Meanwhile, you 4channers masturbate to chinese cartoons and traps regularly

>>16389212
The same could be said to some poor guy who just lost all his money during the great depression. You just need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps! Stop rationalizing failure and coping and go out there and work!
Sure, there is a possibility that indeed he could be better off if he worked more and that he's not actually afflicted by the depression. The probability of this is nonzero. But that doesn't mean that the great depression is an illusion, or doesn't exist.
All the statistics indicate that incels in fact DO exist and their ranks are growing every single day. The situation is going to get worse and worse.
While subjectively for an individual it is indeed beneficial to think that the statistics do not apply to him and do his best, go out there. But denying the societal problem like that altogether is absolutely retarded.

>>15629935
That's a fake chart. The actual chart is pic related.
source can be found here:
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-percentage-of-americans-not-having-sex-has-reached-a-record-high

Why such a big jump bros?

>>14047958
You seem to be under the impression that incels can easily score sex with a fatty, that fatties don’t aim and have access to sex with men more attractive than them, and that men and women experience the same difficulty when trying to find a sexual partner. You’re profoundly mistaken.

>>13835837

>>13834402
>There's also our relation to promiscuity and sex: by all accounts we fuck less (in the West that is) than previous generations
Depending on how you look at it, this may or may not be true. Yes, the fraction of people (and men in particular) who don't have sex has increased a lot. I won't speculate on the reasons as to why this is the case, just observing. However, I don't think the "sex-havers" have less sex than before and actually I'd guess that they have more sex than previous generations. They have more sex not only with the same person, but with multiple people, via Tinder.

I do agree with you otherwise though that the situation seems to be quite complex and not as black and white as ideologists and political commentators would have you believe. There is something innately boomer about complaining people are having "less sex", like the headlines complaining millenials do things very differently from their parents (millenials get drivers licenses later and less, millenials drink less and so on). You could attribute this to millenials are more responsible but I think it has more do with what >>13834458 said, namely that there are a lot more external pressures such as school, work etc than ever before. And information overload is a real factor here. This more than anything else in my mind would cause people to be less interested in sacrificing time and effort in finding relationships (and not just with the other sex)

>>13833624
I wonder why males are hit harder by the lack of marriages and increase in higher education than females are. But nobody addresses this. They've been hit 30% harder and nobody minds.

>>13603538
>> implying hypergamy exists
Proof: pic related.

>> implying being good looking leads to a loving relationship
Increased selection increases probability, halo effect increases lovability.

>> implying that smashing a random thot is better than other pleasures.
Assumption that good looks lead to lust rather that love, see above. Assumption that sex isn't better than other pleasures, unlikely as system that doesn't promote self-propagation would not survive, behavior in all mammals contradicts, no substantiation provided.

>>13348224
have you not seen this frequently posted image