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Let's see.. it was simultaneous and synchronized across the Anglophone countries in the early 2010s.

It's sort of peculiar for Puritanism to appear suddenly and simultaneously in widely distant countries that share a common language but have different cultures, right?

No, I think the change in phones and what they enabled in social media is a better explanation.

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The decline in young people's sexual activity is a recent event: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-have-been-...

That started in Japan around 2000, a good ten years before the mental health crisis that struck kids at about 13 years of age in English speaking countries simultaneously.

Japan is in some sense at the leading edge of male isolation and loneliness and depression.

And limited internet access on feature phone (i-mode, J-Sky, EZweb) was a thing from around 2000. Many students had it. So it strengthen original argument.

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