Comment by loceng

If porn is involved in that equation, it's not the primary or fundamental driver.

I'd argue inflammatory foods that have a depressant effect on the nervous system, especially damaging during development stages, along with where mainstream culture is directing people - along with government policy heavily captured by industrial complexes and bad actors (domestic and foreign) in general, will be the leading causes.

If we simply look at the shallow metric of "not having sex" vs. studying to see what's different between those who are and aren't having sex, aren't having children - that's not going to be very fruitful except for people to simply conclude "be attractive; don't be ugly;" attraction is far deeper than the skin, however in part I believe that the inflammatory-depressant state I mentioned is likely to block to a small or large degree, a person's stimulation and excitement from deeper signals and processes that would otherwise 1) make more people attractive to them, as a stronger signal overall - which will be motivating on its own, and 2) also provide nuance to help with targeting to have the nuanced signals to know-learn more accurately who you're actually most attracted to - from more breadth and depth, where you could argue it allows a person's intuition to flourish; rather than be stunted by inflammation, or past unprocessed/unhealed trauma causing people to avoid, etc.