Women in the U.S. are flocking to the 4B movement, which rejects heterosexual marriage, sex, childbirth and dating

Since the U.S. presidential election, Google searches for 4B have risen dramatically, its subreddit has doubled its membership.

The movement started in 2019 in South Korea in response to an increasingly misogynistic culture that South Korean women feel constrains their rights and devalues their personhood.

The rollback of protections for abortion care in the United States has directly caused the deaths of many women.

Frida Ghitis : 4B is essentially the “inverse of the manosphere eagerly divesting from all men’s.

She says the movement's call for women to withdraw from all intimacy with men is less about punishing men and more about keeping women safe.

Ghitis says the 4B movement's intentions are earnest, and in some cases necessary, but 4B similarly pressures women to conform.

4B is a well-intentioned system that attempts to grapple with encroaching authoritarianism by championing sexual repression.

This view of women’s sexuality as a liability rather than a resource echoes the “purity culture” of the Christian right.

Young women are already less interested in marriage and children and are already having less sex than older generations.

Some have pointed out that 4B has homo- and transphobic elements.