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Exactly what I interpreted from this too. Posting a bunch of stats on sex and marriage as if they're a remedy for loneliness ignores the fact that people absolutely can feel lonely while having both.

Men do absolutely need to be better with each other but women do perpetuate this also.

The modern concept of masculinity is completely broken. Long ago it used to be about being a protector, now it's about anger, dominance, power, emotional dysregulation, resource hoarding (most of which provide little benefit to society at large).

A co-worker keept telling me he knows what's wrong with me and that I just need to fuck. I so wanted to strangle him, because I'd imagine that would make you less focused.

Another keeps insisting I grab (a married co-worker) by the pussy.

Depends if you are on 4chan of not

That's definitely one sense, and the one that's actually an issue. But I've read enough headlines and yt subject lines to pick up on there also being some muddying of the waters with romantic female companionship. Or rather lack thereof as being a key part of the crisis.

With modern contraceptive technology we can have sex thats completely meaningless, where both parties are trying to achieve a deeper connection (to something, not even necessarily to each other) and misguidedly hope it can be achieved through a simple release. Its almost dystopian.

Seems like a lot of incels really believe it though

The penis is my data transfer cable.

That could almost be a CAKE lyric

[USB Connection sound]

Remember to safely unmount

yeah but it was a one night stand so you know it made them feel extra less lonely

Yea, I would imagine a 30-40 yo virgin may end up getting a sex worker. having sex with a sex worker doesn't really reduce loneliness.

“Male loneliness epidemic” = “all lives matter.”

I disagree, ALM is a whataboutism meant to distract from the BLM movement. There is no loneliness epidemic movement, so if some men want to get together and discuss how loneliness particularly affects them, good for them.

That’s definitely a decent chunk of what people in the media who talk about the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ are talking about, though. I don’t think I’ve read a single article about it that doesn’t devote time to how little sex young men allegedly aren’t having.

The "while some is just incels" in your code comment part had me for a while, genuinely made me think of programming

She went to a different school you wouldn't know her

They’re not.

A quick google search:

In Japan, roughly 50% of young adults aged 18-29 report being virgins.

In the UK, about 46% of people aged 16-24 identify as virgins

10% of US males under 34 are virgins. (Source)

EDIT: The OP seems to be citing data from at least 15 years ago. But that’s precisely the problem: the world seems to have changed in that time. We have 3 times the number of virgins across age groups in just a few years, for instance.

i think a simple "what do you feel right now" would stump half the population.