So Gen-Z incel infuencer brought the male loneliness epidemic concept, I understand that for many people loneliness isn’t a blessing, and know that it feel better to sleep in the arm of someone loving you than alone.
However, if I remember my English class, single women were mostly banned from immigrating to the US, and men were the one travelling to the far-west, so I expect a pretty bad gender-ratio, with many single men How was it managed at the time ? Did it led to societal scale problem ?
The stories of early New Orleans are a good example of this. Men were lonely and wanted wives. They wrote letters to the church back home. The church provided prostitutes and other women of ill repute by the boat load.
Do you have a link or reference for that last part? Never heard of this.
I may have mixed up the church and the French government. Or the local tour guides’ accounts may conflict with what I’m finding online.
I’ll see what I can dig up. It was mentioned at this museum I went to during my last trip there.