Interesting article out today about the power of perception.

Research shows we think young people have a lot more sex than they do in reality – and men have a particularly skewed view of the sex lives of young women.

As part of Ipsos’ long-running studies on misperceptions to be released in a new book, The Perils of Perception, we asked people in Britain and the US to guess how often people aged 18-29 in their country had sex in the past four weeks.

The average guess about young men in both countries is that they had sex 14 times in the last month. But the actual number is just five in Britain and four in the US, according to detailed surveys of sexual behaviour.

Our guess would mean that, on average, young men are having sex every other day – around 180 times a year – compared with the more mundane reality of around 50 times. But that’s not the most remarkable error in our guessing. Men are even more wildly wrong when they guess about young women’s sex lives, in both the US and Britain.

Men think young women are having an incredible amount of sex – 22 times a month in Britain, and 23 times a month in the US. These guesses would be the equivalent of the average young woman having sex every weekday, plus two or three times on one special day each month. In reality, it’s around five times.

Now it strikes me that a certain amount of the manosphere is driven by FOMO - thinking everyone around you is having a fulfilling sex life whilst you arent (obvious exceptions being the guys who used to have fulfilling sex lives to compare a present day poor one to). This is more prevalent online IMO - IRL I know all of 3 people who've slept with more than 15 partners for example - where apparently everyone has slept with hundreds of people and is having sex 5 times a day.

Is it possible that some men are being to the Red Pill by a perceived lack of success over an actual relative lack of success?

Also, y'all need to fuck more.

I've been conca.