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Assuming porn causes incels, but the golden age of porn started at 1969, so that doesnt work. Assuming incels cause porn, has porn become more profitable in the past ~20 years? I 'd say probably true based on the innovation of the profitability models , expecially after onlyfans became a thing

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Key to remember that in the Golden Age of Porn, probably less than 5% of teens had seen a pornographic film. Today it's probably over 99%?

That’s likely overblown. I suspect 70+% of kids in the 90’s had seen porn and I doubt it’s much past 95% today.

If anything we just don’t see what people do in their private lives that much. Incel isn’t some new thing, it’s simply more talked about today.

We're just relying on guesswork here but to think that the internet only created a 25% increase in porn exposure for teens seems really off, especially considering how hard porn was for minors to obtain pre-internet.

Also, it's worth considering that the "porn" they would have had easiest access to was Playboy magazine content--not the catalog of Pornhub.

It appears to affect non-heterosexuals differently , though

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