There is no denying that our modern society breeds more loneliness and atomization than ever before, thanks to it's fundamental differences from those of the past which has lead to the decline of past reliable community socialization, all despite existing in the most connected era of humanity thanks to the internet.

But what is relevant to this subreddit that is a consequence of these fundamental circumstances, and honestly much more recent shifts - post 2008 with the recession, online dating, and women's education only rising - besides the rise compared to previous generations of mental illness, resorting to pills, suicidal tendencies, and unhappiness is the rise of sexlessness.

To show this I will be mainly using 2 sets of data, a survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the CDC's the National Survey of Family Growth. These have been mentioned before but I feel I will be presenting them more clearly and of course important to mention, together. Then one article from Morgan Stanley that brings up a prediction of a worrying trend in the near future and what one can only imagine is the new normal.

Survey 1: Between 2000-2002 and 2016-2018, the proportion of 18- to 24-year-old individuals who reported having had no sexual activity in the past year increased among men 18.9% vs 30.9%, among women 15.1% vs 19.1%. 25 to 34 years among men doubling 7.0% to 14.1%, among women 7.0% vs 12.6%. When you take into account men who are poor, work part time, or unemployed, things just turn worse and worse. Then looking at both extremes outright - more young men than young women reported having no sexual partner 16.4% vs 12.0% and 3 or more partners 14.5% vs 7.1%. This rise did not find itself with gay and bi men though, indicating it's something about heterosexual partnering specifically.

Survey 2: Data is 2015-2019 for reference. Among sexually experienced men and women age 25-49 the median partner count is 6.3 and 4.3 respectively. One may draw false conclusion off this alone, but if you pay attention women lead in each N count until we get to 10-14 (12.5% vs 11.6%) marginally and 15 or more partners (28.3% vs 12.9%) drastically. Really it's these almost 30% of men that are having all that much more sex than women by over x2!!!

Trend: Based on Census Bureau historical data and Morgan Stanley forecasts, 45% of prime working age women (ages 25-44) will be single by 2030—the largest share in history—up from 41% in 2018. Given that we can predict sexlessness will rise for both men and women (though more for men), given the previous data available already presented, young adult women's virginity should not rise above 20% and their sexless in the past year will not reach men's current stats of around 30%. On the other hand for young adult men this could realistically rise to 20%+ and near 40% respectively.

Thoughts? I would hope there will be less denying this reality outright, though I know there will be an unrelenting contingent that trudge on regardless.

Edit: 1) It seems some are ignoring this, but sexlessness in the past year increasing x1.6 to a whopping 1/3 young men is not 'normal' this is a tremendous spike and the partner count difference once getting to 15+ partners is also not 'normal'. I find this especially ridiculous when any notion of hypergamy is smacked down here routinely, denied until 'it was obvious all along'?

2) To get ahead of any dumb arguments or attacks at myself, I would not say I'm Red Pill because of certain fundamental differences (I see it as fighting rugged individualism with rugged individualism which is only good for the few and a necessarily losing strategy) and have never presented myself as such. I used the purple flair for a bit but removed it for this grey, I'm not Black Pill I hate doomerism and I'm honestly not that ugly to give up rofl. I would say I'm no pill but I recently stumbled upon whatever White pill is supposed to be and I'd say I'm closest to that, but again it carries Red pill cultural ideals and methods I have big disagreements on.