Due to gender socialization, women may feel sad instead of angry when sexually rejected, often blaming themselves. Source: Min An / Pexels Can women be involuntarily celibate? The recent movement of ...

The Femcels have released only two songs before now, but I Have to Get Hotter arrives in a bedazzled burst of moxie. Every track has enough daft escapades to pack an 11-minute TV episode as the duo ...

To an incel, feminism is one of the root causes of all relationship woes. An “involuntarily celibate” person (otherwise called an incel) believes feminism has made the modern woman too empowered, and ...

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Rhiannon Lewis is not important. The men she sleeps with won’t text her back. She lives alone, surrounded by the belongings of her dead dad and her dead dog. Her sister bullies her, as does her old ...

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The release of Adolescence on Netflix has one again brought incels back into the spotlight - with calls for the hit drama to be shown in school to combat a culture of misogyny, racism and self-pity ...

Can women be involuntarily celibate? The recent movement of "femcels," or women who struggle with finding sexual partners, would suggest so. Although the original "incel" community was founded in 1997 ...

20-year-old Anna* spent her teenage years feeling “uncomfortable, self-conscious - just horrible every time I looked in a mirror”. She has dark hair and eyes, framed by thick dark lashes - even ...