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Those stats are consistent with dozens of other studies over the past decade or so. Many of them are in Japanease, long been one of the worst places in the world for young male virginity. But here's some other stats from the a study released in 2019 by the United States' National Opinion Research Center (NORC) - they did a really big rigorous study.
Between 2008 - 2018, the number of men under 30 who said they'd not had sex at all in the last year rose about 30x faster than it did for young women! (And in total, 28% of under 30 year old men reported no sex in the last year by 2018.)
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It's also a well know thing from life experience. I'd eat my hat if one of the younger more switched on punters here (e.g. Payyourwaymate) denies that dating has become much harder for young men in recent years. One of the causes for increased demand for WGs, unlikely to be helping with prices in most areas.
Agree with this - one of several reasons why these underlying social changes seem to hurt women as well as young men.
It's maybe even more interesting to consider reasons why young women in particular may not be benefiting. If you look at the 2023 article I posted before, it says one of the reasons for more lasses dating than lads, is that young women are increasingly dating themselves!
As you likely know, it used to be the case that men were more often found in same sex relationships. The basic biological fact that folk with a strong preference for homosexual relationships are more likely to be men is unlikely to have changed. But what has changed is that young women these days are less likely to be directly economically dependent on men. And as the article says, they may be choosing same sex relationships as they can't find young men who are good on the emotional side.
While I'd say most of the reason for the imbalance is lasses dating older men, there do seem to some young women missing out on their own ideal sexual preferences, just so they can find someone who's good with their emotions. In a way you have to feel bad for young men. On the one hand their hearing nonsense from ultra feminists. On the other, they're getting fed nonsense by grifters in the manosphere, and being misled by too much porn and overly compliant AI girlfriends.
Thank the Emperor for UKpunting where at least members try to tell the truth about sexual matters for the benefit of other punters, without ulterior motive.
I think you're conflating several issues but I would like to comment on the bit I highlighted. I read the article you mentioned in your earlier post and I think you misread what it says.
The Hill:
"Some of them are dating each other. One-fifth of Generation Z identifies as queer, and research suggests bisexual women make up a large share of the young-adult queer community."That doesn't say women are
increasingly dating themselves. It's merely stating that about 20% of women identify as queer. When you say
"women are increasingly dating themselves!" (including the exclamation mark) you are suggesting that women "decide" to become queer and date themselves rather than men. People (men and women) don't suddenly decide to become gay. They are born that way. I can believe some bisexual women could decide to no longer date men but I would suggest the numbers are so few that would probably not make much difference to the overall statistics.
My one criticism of this article, and many others touching similar subjects, is the clickbaity approach to it. They sensationalise the statistics and put a negative slant on it. This kind of articles are picked up by some impressionable young men who may be having problems engaging with women thereby creating a sense of victimhood.
Articles like this, although great in the purpose of identifying current societal trends can, inadvertently, create resentment among some men. Basically the slant some men can take is "women aren't dating us anymore" so it's their fault we are not getting sex. You yourself misrepresented the article (I'm guessing you did not do that on purpose) so this is easy pickings for the Red Pill brigade and expand on this kind of articles and show them as proof of something nefarious and how "men are under attack".
Basically by highlighting the difficulties some men suffer, articles like this one may unintentionally drive some men to online incel forums, where they will, more than likely, receive some sort of affirmation and a feeling of belonging. It would be more beneficial for everyone if articles like this would propose that we should not view this a wholly negative trend, but more like a positive societal evolution.
They can easily balance out the message by showing that single young men may be shifting towards greater individual freedom and autonomy in their choices - just as modern women are able to do nowadays. Instead of inadvertently causing gender division, they could emphasise how women's empowerment is a great step towards gender equality, rather than viewed as removing men from the equation (women are not dating themselves). One thing that the article didn't touch on is the fact that not all single people are lonely or disconnected; many people, both men and women, choose to be single for personal reasons or to focus on their careers and personal development - surely that's a good thing.
Also, do we know how many of those young people not having sex actually want to have sex? There is this thing called asexuality after all.
Lastly, I would suggest that rather than women being the major problem here (by supposedly not wanting sex with men) it's just one of the problems young men face towards their self esteem. A bigger problem, in my opinion, is men themselves. We, men, tend to boast about everything, we boast about having better jobs/cars, better this, better that, how many women we slept with (supposedly), we tend to do that a lot - how much of the boasting is true though? How many of the reviews include a lot of embellishment of our sexual prowess with sex workers I wonder? We celebrate and promote porn, sometimes extreme kinds of porn. When young men show some kind of insecurities we tell them to "man up", "grow a pair", etc. When young men want to talk about their insecurities and fears we don't listen to them. Don't be a pussy, we tell them. We like to show that we are Alpha males (we pretend to at least) and that they should be Alpha too. That attitude certainly doesn't help young men who are finding it difficult to engage socially or romantically with women or just trying to find their place in society.
Sadly, us "normal" older men are not listening to young men, but have you noticed who is listening to them? Yep, the Red Pill brigade with their warped version of how male/female relationship "should" work.
