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#660 William Costello: The Psychology of Involuntary Celibates (Incels), and Modern Mating

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The Asymmetrical Sex Recession

The share of US men younger than 30 reporting having no sex within the last year rose from 8% in 2008 to 28% in 2018. The standard deviation of sex partners is small for women but extremely high for men. So we have a modern mating system that's kind of simultaneously polygynous and polyandrous. But this decline in hypergamy has appeared in lockstep with increases in rates of female infidelity.

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