The increasing visibility of incels in developed countries, especially in Japan, where the numbers of adult male virgins has gotten ridiculous, makes the correspondingly decreasing percentage of sexually experienced men uneasy for some reason. I have to wonder if the unease resembles the effects of mortality salience in terror management theory. We provide empirical evidence that women's sexual freedom hasn't resulted in a sexual utopia, despite all the propaganda to that effect going back to the Enlightenment.
I'm tempted to create a drinking game for every time the Enlightenment gets blamed for whatever somebody thinks is wrong with the world.
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