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Are 27% Of Young Men Really Virgins? (And Why) - Date Psychology
Enjoy DatePsychology? Consider subscribing at Patreon to support the project. Many of you will have seen this chart: This is from the General Social Survey (GSS) in 2018, as reported by the Washington Post. This image has become a meme. This was released in 2018 and the data was collected in...
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Absolutely brutal breaking down of this classic chart:
Here's how that 27% looks like when broken down by age.
Just over. It's literally just teens starting to fuck later in life, nothing more.
This shows a very strong effect of age on male virginity. In this, 50.52% of men between 18-20 are virgins. For men over age 25 (but not older than 30), only 1.9% are virgins.
I have seen the WaPo chart interpreted untold times by people who think it means that 27% of all men aged 18-30 are virgins. 27% is across the whole group. It’s a highly skewed distribution, with the vast majority of virgins falling into the youngest age cohort.
In other words, it’s really quite normal to still be a virgin at age 18. It’s very uncommon to be a virgin at age 25. Indeed, the more conservative or traditional elements of society might have argued at one point that you should still be a virgin at age 18. At age 18 you probably have very little going for you. You might still look very young (not especially attractive to women). You probably don’t have a job, an education, or money. Indeed, there is a current phenomenon of extended adolescence; young men are getting drivers’ licenses, jobs, and entering university later in life. They are living at home with their parents longer. Lots of reasons to remain a virgin.
You do see an uptick in virginity for the older age groups. However, most of the effect is driven by the youngest cohort. Additionally, when breaking the sample into age groups the 18-19 year cohort only has 10-20 participants for each year. The other age groups have 100+ participants across years. This contributes to the high variability that you see in the chart for the youngest men. The data is noisier and weighting a small sample means that you are also weighting the noise.
Absolutely over for the copers who think that they wouldn't be virgins if they were born a decade earlier, boyos on suicide watch right now (unless they are under 20, of course.)
Absolutely over for those of us who are 25 and older and still KHHV. It gets even worse when you look at the latest data.
Now we can compare with 2021, the more recent data:
The number of virgins past 25 has actually very slightly decreased in the last few years. Meanwhile, here I am, being a 25-year-old KHHV. It's fucking over, it's just fucking over. Jfl, gotta laugh at the copers coping with muh "I'd be a married man with three children already if I was born five years earlier." Bruh, look at those numbers, unless you're still a teen, why do you think you'd be slaying ten years ago if you aren't slaying now?We see a decrease in male virginity for men over age 20 and an increase for men under age 20. Consistent with the extended adolescence observation. Keep in mind the percentage across the full group was 24.93% in the first chart; in the second it is 16.64%.
Conclusion
The virginity statistic is driven by the youth. We don’t see an increase in extended male virginity between 2018 and 2021, although we did see an uptick between 2014 and 2018. Past age 25, very few men remain virgins. The question used in the GSS that has been interpreted as “virginity” probably overestimates it a little bit. Additionally, the small number of young male adults in the GSS contributes to high variability across years.