Six Out of Ten Young Men are Single for Unusual Reasons
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VIVA – New Pew Research Center data has found that nowadays, 63% of men under 30 are electively single, up from 51% in 2019 and experts blame erotic alone time online as a reason.
“(Young men) are watching a lot of social media, they’re watching a lot of porn, and I think they’re getting a lot of their needs met without having to go out. I think that’s starting to be a habit.” psychologist Fred Rabinowitz told.
The new, post-COVID numbers would surely back up previous research that the pandemic has made men prefer an evening alone instead of actually meeting a soulmate. Just half of the single men as a whole responded that they are “looking for a committed relationship and/or casual dates,” a decrease compared to 61% four years ago.
But these statistics tell a sadder truth about this generation of men, NYU psych professor Niobe Way told. “We’re in a crisis of connection. Disconnection from ourselves and disconnection from each other. And it’s getting worse.” Way said.
The male numbers come sharply juxtaposed to the 34% of women under 30 who now say they are single, which has seen only a slight pandemic rise in that age group.
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Another factor at play might be the interests of women changing — especially as suitors of the same age are becoming less desirable, experts said.
“(Women would) rather go to brunch with friends than have a horrible date,” LA couples and family psychologist Greg Matos said.
However, perhaps the biggest problem young men now have that greatly affects their social abilities, is that they are on the whole, lonelier than women, a recent study suggests.
In the early 1990s, 55% of men reported having six or more close friends. That percentage shrank to 27% in 2021, according to the American Perspective Survey. Now, 15% of men say they have no close personal friendships, according to data collected by the Survey Center on American Life.
