I reckon being a virgin freak was WAY worse in the 80s-2000s than it is today
At least incels nowadays have pornography addiction to numb their anguish and distract them from their sexless reality

If you were a loser even 20 years ago it must've been torture. We had the exact same party culture, the women are just as fit and promiscuous, everyone else was having sex, and there was really no getting away from it. Reality was based in the physical world. Wanking to a magazine probably didn't salve the primal monkey brain the same way that a 4k sex video does today.