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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      4 days ago

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

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

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

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

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              I think the distinction is important to some people.

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

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          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
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          Asexuality doesn’t have the desire for sex.

          This is abstinence for those that would like to have sex but don’t feel safe.