Involuntary Celibacy

Involuntary celibacy (colloquially incel) is chronic near-total absence in a person's sexuality of intimate relationships or sexual intercourse that is occurring for reasons other than voluntarycelibacy, asexuality, antisexualism, or sexual abstinence. It is the psycho-social opposite of having a sex life. Incel people, despite being open to sexual intimacy and potential romance with anotherperson and also making active, repeated efforts towards such an end, cannot cause any such end(s) to occur with any significant degree of regularity—or even at all.
As a concept, involuntary celibacydistinguishes itself from other various celibacy types by two major overall characteristics: First, it is explicitly not dependent on the choices or actions of the individual, and is instead apattern-like, semi-perpetual, essentially unchanging situation, even if the person succeeds in improving his or her looks and social skills to try to attract sexual partners. Second, involuntarily celibateindividuals are at a complete or near-complete lack for intimate physical connection for very long spans of time—several years and even sometimes decades at a time, not merely weeks or months—while alsobeing at a complete or near-complete lack of opportunities for sexual advancement in the first place, thereby making betterment of their own sexuality through accumulation of "sexual experience"impossible.[1]
What makes involuntary celibacy an especially difficult condition for its sufferers to deal with is the fact that most of the time the circumstance cannot be explained through externalpersonal factors—most incels, based on inquests by researchers into the population, are not especially physically unattractive, and most resemble in an interpersonal sense their peers who are notinvoluntarily celibate.[1] Although a few of the involuntarily celibate population may have discernible personality disorders that preclude current and future sexual opportunities, the small amount of...