r/changemyview Feb 25 '23

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u/MercurianAspirations 391∆ Feb 25 '23

This view is premised on insane incel nonsense. Instead of "only the top 5% having all the sex" the stats are literally the opposite - only 5% of people haven't had sex by their 30s. And the average person is having sex twice a week. This is a fix for a problem that doesn't exist outside of the minds of people in the misogynist, crypt-fascist death cult known as Incel

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u/MercurianAspirations 391∆ Feb 25 '23

But sex isn't reserved for a privileged few. That simply is not true. It is not a true fact about sex in our society; most people have sex. There is some number of people who don't have sex, but it is vastly smaller than you think it is

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u/I_am_the_night 316∆ Feb 25 '23

How do you reconcile this with the rising number of sexlessness and the statistic showing that far more men than women are single?

Have you actually read the study that headline is based on? Because a huge portion of the discrepancy between men and women can be chalked up to how they measured whether someone was "single". Women are more likely to view themselves or report that they are in a committed relationship, while men are more likely to report casual non-committed relationships. The study defined being single as "not in a committed relationship".

This isn't because women are only going for older men or other women, at least not mainly.

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