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Young Male Shooters: A Case of Sexual Frustration?
Thinking out loud…
Mass shootings are at dominating the news cycle and rightly so.
Since the horrible events at Uvalde last week, we have had a number of mass shootings; notably in Tulsa, Oklahoma and elsewhere.
And in every one of these incidents, the perpetrator was male.
While we should never exclude the structural problems unique to America, such as its refusal to implement stringent checks on those seeking to own weapons and an outright ban on ownership of assault weapons, I really am convinced that there is an elephant in the room that we have failed to address.
And what might that be?
Male sexual frustration.
Sexual frustration might very well be the reason behind why a great number of suicide bombers are male; the prospect of having 72 virgins in the afterlife as reward for their deeds must be very hard to resist.
All facetiousness aside, it does seem as though there are simply too many sexually frustrated young men out there, thereby raising the prospect of the frequency of mass shootings and suicides.
The inability of young men across the world to communicate their feelings and find an outlet for the excessive amount of testosterone being…