Here's a pretty good podcast about the biology and sociology of sex that I think has a lot to do with why MGTOW is taking off:
TL;DW:
-The male genome is much more variable and faster to change than female genome due to men having the Y chromosome, which omits some redundancies the XX pairing has.
-Guys generally maintain a steadier level of sex drive throughout their life, with a general slant towards quantity and novelty.
-Most male behavior is shaped by the female...
in situations where male demand for sex is higher than supply.
-In situations where fewer males are available,
men gain the ability to shape female behavior.
-There's an evolutionary mismatch between male and female orgasms developed and what their purposes are. Female orgasm developed much later in human evolution.
-Humans basically evolved in a way that they'd pair up for 7-8 years, long enough for a child to mature enough to point where it could keep itself alive, then separate.
-Female sex drive consistently reduces after long-term bonding with a mate.
-Female sex drive/expression is far more controlled by social factors like education and religious adherence than the male sex drive.
-The Victorian era was the most prudish era, which was driven by women's response to the industrial revolution reducing the value of their labor, forcing them to rely more on sex appeal to attract mates, while also dealing with the sudden jump in life expectancy that stopped serial monogamy.
-Slut shaming is women's in-group method of preventing casual sex from happening at a level of dating that most women are uncomfortable with.
-Simp-shaming is men's in-group method of preventing resource extraction/emotional entanglement without gaining sex in return.
What I'm thinking is that there are two main root causes that are combining in MGTOW:
- A biological mismatch in sexual desire and function between men and women.
- Female societal behaviors caused by that biological mismatch.
If you follow the podcast's supply/demand analogy for sex, men are producing high demand for sex, while women are constraining the supply through social means.
But that's because
men and women have completely different reasons why they want sex, plus
completely incompatible sex drive profiles. The venn diagram of the two is basically only overlapping at "pleasure and making babies", and on an individual level, it's probably closer to just "pleasure". Men and women are basically on two totally divergent courses, which is exacerbated by female societal behaviors created by said mismatch.
Basically, I think MGTOW is a backlash against the basic reality that human women haven't kept up with biological demand
and the social behaviors they use to exploit that fact. This would explain why shitty robot prostitutes can put actual women out of business, despite looking pretty terrible. Robot prostitutes easily meet the demand at a
much lower rate of resource extraction, with the only negatives being lack of emotional connection and child birth.
Once you get really good AI, either in virtual or physical platforms, better looking hardware, and artificial wombs, there's no reason for a guy to actually bother with human women outside of philosophical or possibly economic reasons that make human women the cheaper option.