Not just not married. No sexual partner whatsoever. This is a growing trend also for every age group except those over 65 (aka the boomers who learnt relationship skills early).
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do long distance relationships count where you both cam yourselves and nut. I think it counts. If the alternative is nothing, think it counts.
Y'all suck at the game.
What happened to the Marxist analysis guy who posted in here?
Someone needs to do a proper Marxist analysis of what changes in advanced societies have caused this to happen. This is a prime Holla Forums recruiting tactic because they just blame this problem on feminism, this doesn't really make sense because even strongly anti-feminist courties like SK and Japan have this issue, but its an easy answer that's intuitively appealing to people. If we could offer our own answer as to the source of the problem we can develop a strategy to solve it and use it as a recruiting tool. It's clearly something to do with latestage, post-fordist Capitalism but I have no idea what the connection is.
Here is some spitballing:
1. People are generally more alienated from each other, its much harder to meet people when you don't have acquaintance introducing you to others.
2. Men and Women are more insecure and neurotic reducing the chance of relationships working.
3. Porn provides an outlet for sexual energy without requiring people to find a partner.
4. Media creates unrealistic standards for a partner in both Men and Women
Basically I think its a combination of the breakdown of tradition communal/familial bonds (in the past it would be quite common for partners to meet at Churches, through family, neighbourhood event etc.) and the existence of modern day media technology increasing neurosis and warping people' sexuality.
I deleted my post because it was riddled with typo's.
Read.
You can delete posts o.O
The free love movement proves this wrong, whether you like it or not. In fact the people having the least sex I've known are straight.
Even gays are having less sex. The only people I really notice fucking are lesbians. And I don't think it's the ability to have same sex relations, people always have. I think we have been socially overdosed on the spectacle via the internet, and those the most far away from it suffer the least.
It could be a lot of things but "lack of family values" clearly isn't it. And if you're going to say "OF COURSE, WOMEN AGAIN" I don't think you're making a very good argument.
The truth is far more material. Sex costs money, straight sex isn't as satisfying to most people, so straight people avoid it. Relationships cost money, everyone is stressed. I think we're reaching pre baby boomer levels and that's really all there is to it.
Oh yeah and I forgot to mention the most obvious factor Women now have to choose between their career and family in a society where career success is decides your entire social status.
South Korea has feminist movements but I'd say its still less feminist than the west was 40 year ago. It's still legal (and quite common) to for inheritance to be patrimonial, Married women with children aren't expected to work, and traditional gender roles are stronger.
I'm not saying its a break down of "family values." Maybe I phrased it confusingly but I mean there has been a general decline of all types of civil society organization in the west; sports leagues, churches, labour unions, neighbourhood organizations, fraternal societies etc. There was a whole book written about this decline en.wikipedia.org
Of course feminism if causing this. Just because reactionaries notice a trend doesn't mean it's wrong. Singledom (not just marriages singledom) has risen in proportion to the increase in divorce. Every women's lib movement with the exception of the modern inneffective one (because women are already liberated) has caused a dramatic increase in divorce.
You see people uncoupling starting from the sexual revolution. In the 50s people were extremely close, then they started drifting apart as divorces increased. This is before VHS porn and the internet and other atomizing technologies. Those technologies are epi-phenomena, reactions to a broader trend.
Capitalism of course plays a negative role in social alienation, in part by making people want to destroy social institutions in the name of consumerism.
People are now expendable, not just physical commodities.
It's only a reactionary view if you don't think that people can be sexually brought much, much closer together without arranged marriages.
I don't have a partner either. I don't want a relationship at all, even though my family & friends sometimes pester me about finding somebody.