At this point, we're all pretty familiar with the Washington Post article presenting statistics on the rise of sexlessness, especially in men. The article does mention technology as an explanation, but I think it misses the mark, regarding it as a distraction rather than a source of validation for women.

The common theme in each graph in the article is the rate of sexlessness sharply increasing around 2008, coinciding with the release and mainstream availability of the iPhone. Of course, social media predates this, but it was certainly not as mainstream and easy to access as it is today. You don't have to seek out an immobilized desktop or bulky laptop to log on to Facebook anymore, all thanks to the little dopamine machine that is in everybody's pocket.

This brings me to my main point, which is male thirst. Red pillers always seem to point to stuff like Tinder as an example of hypergamy run rampant, but often fail to recognize the fuel of the fire. Of course women are going to act hypergamous when all she has to do is pull her phone out of her pocket at any time and see the hundreds of validating DMs from her pathetic orbiters who would slice off their own balls just for a chance to sniff her farts. No shit she's gonna screen out all these low value men, they're providing her with free attention and validation, which is all she really wants or needs from men in general. She doesn't even need to be attractive.

Most importantly, it's not even unique to women. If the genders were reversed and men were held in such high regard as the average woman, we would act the same way, and high value men do.

Abundance mentality and taking pussy off the pedestal are still being preached in some red pill circles, but that's not going to stop horny pathetic losers from buying some random thot's used panties off of r/sexsells so she can go buy more weed. The fact that being an Instagram model is a legit and lucrative profession nowadays shows that these ideas are not going to reach the wider male population anytime soon.

I'm not preaching some kind of MGTOW philosophy, but I truly believe that if every single man suddenly stopped interacting with women outside of strictly business and professional situations, I'd give it about a month or two before there would be no more celibate men, or at least so little that it would return to normal levels from the past. But that's never going to happen, not unless the cultural zeitgeist moves on from social media, which is probably even less likely.

I feel strange as a 20 year old saying this, but the boomers may have onto something this whole time when they said it was all the fault of these darn phones.