I agree with this. I think it’s more of an effort thing. Like, why invest time in trying to seduce, socialize, and look good with women when I can just jack off at home?
A regular porn watcher and masturbator will still find having sex better than masturbating. Obtaining sex is higher effort though.
The effort variable is worth more of a discussion.
More men have been experiencing a concept known as hoeflation. Hoeflation is meaning that men are having to put in more effort to attract/seduce women that are lower quality women than in past decades. Hoeflation has accelerated in the 21st Century.
Hoeflation and hypergamy are concepts that have been damaging to the beta male.
In the first 2/3rds of the 1900s in the USA, there was a bit of an understanding between women and beta males in the sexual marketplace. Due to cultural factors, women had some level of dependency upon males. Women needed men because women's rights and women's liberation had not gotten that far during that time. Women's rights had been a topic since the 1800s. The 1848 convention in Seneca Falls, New York was the first mainstream effort around women's rights in the USA. By 1920, women had earned the right to vote. From 1920-1960, changes for women were rather limited. More women had temporary roles in the workplaces during World War II when more men were fighting a war in Europe and in Asia. In the immediate post war era (1945-1959), women did take more supportive roles as wives and mothers to returning war veterans. Many young women of 1945-1959 ended up with beta males simply because of economic dependency and the cultural norms of the 1940s-1950s. It's also worth pointing out that a beta male of the 1940s-1950s was more traditionally masculine than the 2000s-2020s beta male.
3 major changes in the 1960s impacted the framework of interactions between women and beta males (majority of men).
1. The invention of the hormonal birth control pill in 1960
2. The rise of Second Wave Feminism (1960s-1980s era feminism). This was the most influential feminism wave.
3. The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s-1970s, which tied into Second Wave Feminism
The birth control pill was originally used by married women for family planning. It was less common for the unmarried, young women of the 1960s to be using birth control pills. Latex condoms replaced rubber condoms in the 1920s and condoms were gaining popularity by the 1960s with males. The 1960s was the first time when both a young male and a young female could both be using birth prevention methods simultaneously. This started to happen but was less common due to the influence of religion and culture. Many Christian faiths were anti-pre marital sex and contraception. Roman Catholicism was the most ardently against those two, as it banned its adherents from pre-marital sex and all forms of contraception use.
With items 2 & 3, women had more sexual freedom and started to gain economic freedom. These changes were gradual, but they led to women being less motivated to interact with betas and lean into their hypergamy. In the past, betas were useful for economic reasons but with women being able to earn their own incomes and support themselves reasonably well, betas were no longer needed for the most part. Women used their sexual freedom to chase after sex with the highest tier of men. The highest tier of men got the most access to sex while mid-tier men had to work harder to attract a more promiscuous woman than he would have gotten prior to the Sexual Revolution and Second Wave Feminism. For betas, there was a small window in the 1960s-1970s where they were able to get a small number of partners without having to put a ring on it. In the longer term, it made it more difficult for men the middle of the bell curve (the average frustrated chumps/betas) to be able to get laid.
Because it became more difficult for the mid-tier, average, beta male to get laid, he ended up watching more porn and masturbating more.
