The Reason Gen Z Isn’t Dating

Ms. Emba is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “Rethinking Sex: A Provocation.”

At least incels cared about getting with the opposite sex.

The mostly male, mostly heterosexual looksmaxxers — those who have come to dominate social media with their brainrotted vernacular and impenetrably captioned video clips — seem to have dispensed with relationships entirely.

In the late 1990s, self-defined involuntary celibates cared enough about love to define themselves by their lack thereof. They bemoaned the........

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