“No one really knows me.” Two-thirds of American men aged 18–23 agreed with this statement in a 2023 report titled “State of American Men.”
The male loneliness epidemic has been written about almost ad nauseam, and for good reason: “The mortality impact of being socially disconnected is similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” wrote the U.S. surgeon general in 2023.
