Young gun checking in and porn if used correctly is GOAT, when I wanna grind to save up for something or save in general, I can drain myself with porn when I get horny, and get back to school/work as opposed to get distracted/off track tryna entertain some broad long/well enough to get the drawlsSocial media has to do with a lot of it, but most of it has to do with easier access to free internet porn.
Before internet porn, a lot of guys used to use forums and other forms of social media as a means to escape their true lives / identities.
It's only going to get worse.
A lot of y'all OGs/oldheads are falling into the trap of assuming the reasoning for something as opposed to simply asking. Some of y'all hit the nail on the head already ITT. Social media + the internet has tipped the scales for women, and it's only getting more imbalanced as time progresses. I'm a guy with 30+ bodies and I live at home (transferring to finish up school in the fall and will move out then). If I had my own place I could probably have 40+ because I've been dubbed by at least 10 chicks who lost interest when I told them I didn't have a place to myself. Realistically, even more because I'd be more open to approaching as I'd have added confidence knowing I could close and actually bring them to my spot. Those bodies I got came in spurts (got like 5-6 in a month a few times, there were/are droughts, and there also periods where I'm either too preoccupied, or simply don't care enough to put in the necessary effort to fukk a broad. Risk/reward is also kinda slanted with STIs, metoo, and now Rona.
If anything I prefer a roster to randoms anyway, meeting new women is usually cancer filled with wasting time/money doing shyt I'm uninterested in, acting like she's interesting/different from the thot next to her, listening to her babble just to have meh sex (most these broads don't put in any effort, and expect you to do damn near everything) with a condom. Unless she feeling you, is fully comfortable with you or is a ho in general, she's not doing a third of what you peep in softcore porn position wise.
Frankly having porn available and beating your meat since 10-12, makes you choosy IRL to some degree. For example I have never and WILL NEVER fukk a fat chick, because I can get a nut of greater value just beating my dikk. If a woman wants me to go too far, or meet up too late, again I can just beat my meat.
Most of my generations (Gen Z) gripes from well adjusted (non weirdo, school shooter types) is that the women lack depth, and have unrealistic expectations. Frankly a lot of guys in my gen are still holding out for gfs/wives, but experience/being in the field is letting them know that there aren't those types anymore and those values/characteristics aren't valued. That adds to a waining will to pursue. A lotta dudes are more aware of 80/20 and the privileges guys with money/good looks/clout have so they either don't try at all, or set limits on what they're willing to do. I'm in the latter group. Expectations/hoops for regular dudes to jump through for sex have increased quiet as kept, and to some degree I get it. Why would a broad let a 6.5/7 like me fukk without putting in some effort when she could get a 8/9 to do the same. Where I and men in my ilk diverge from simps is I don't feel the need to prove that value to her. That's good and well you've had 8/9s go fukk on them exclusively then, because I'm not putting in 2 weeks of effort and $30-70 to fukk when another dude hit same day for free, call it ego/pride whatever, but nah I'm cool.
Ironically when I have candid conversations with women my age about the future they seem annoyed, frustrated or down right angry that I (a guy they know is smarter than average, in good shape, working towards a strong career and would make a good partner, later on) isn't interested in dealing with any women long term past 26-27. With our societal economic setup if a woman ain't getting it out the mud with me or holding me down (just being a good gf, not financially aiding) when I''m on the come up, if she doesn't bring equal or greater value in terms of your financial setup past that age, her ceiling is friends with benefits. It's hilarious how a lot of women have become used to the safety net of guys in the study not eating, or even average guys who eat decently want them after they decide they're done having fun/being promiscuous/fukking 8-10s exclusively. I'm cool on leftovers, I already ate.
Just my 22 year old perspective