MYTH BUSTED: A Woman Came Up With the Term "Involuntary Celibacy"

Im sure everyone is aware of various articles circulating around claiming that this woman Alana created the word "involuntary celibacy" in 1993, this is a myth and FAKE NEWS.

Do a quick search on google scholar and you will find articles dating back to 1881 talking about involuntary celibacy.

Here is one published in 1979 (so 14 years before Alana's site) that reads:



Source: Hugh Kenner's and Fredrick V. Wellington's Missing Conversation: A Dissent,
[link to www.jstor.org (secure)]

MYTH BUSTED, Alana is responsible for shit.