No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men
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Summary

Following Donald Trump’s recent election victory, Google searches for “4B,” a South Korean feminist movement advocating a “no sex, no dating, no marriage, no children” stance, surged in the U.S.

The 4B movement, popular among young women on social media, promotes individual resistance against conservative politics and the erosion of reproductive rights.

The trend reflects a broader ideological divide between young men and women in the U.S., where women under 30 are significantly more liberal than men.

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There's nothing inherently unhealthy about being asexual.

4B isn't about asexuality, it's about abstinence. Not the same thing.

From a physiological standpoint? Seems virtually the same to me. The other guy said it was unhealthy. Is there anything unhealthy about abstinence?

The difference is that one is identity and the other is a choice.

Yes, no one is arguing that. The context was there's no difference physiologically speaking. That was the premise.

I think the distinction is important to some people.

I have enough respect for those people to know they are smart enough to understand the distinction.

They're not necessarily the same, there's two major differences between them physiologicaly:

  1. Asexual people date others unless they are also aromantic (well aromantic people also can date but it's less common)
  2. Some asexual people can and do have sex

This is not just being asexual. This incel behaviour.

It's called celibacy, and it's voluntary in this context.

Abstains from sex is celibacy. That’s 1B.

There are 4Bs

The Bs are celibacy, no marriage, no children, no dating. None of that is incel behavior.

Incel = involuntary celibacy

These women are volunteering to be celibate.

Wow you don't understand what incels are at all do you?