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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1178: Connor Beaton | How Society Engineered a Generation of Lonely Men

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.8 β€’ 12.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Porn, apps, and missing fathers created a male crisis of loneliness. Here, ManTalks podcast host Connor Beaton breaks down the data and offers solutions.

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1178

What We Discuss with Connor Beaton:

  • Male loneliness epidemic: 15% of men report having no close friends (up from 3% in 1990), and 28% of men aged 18-24 have no close friends. This represents a massive social crisis.
  • Fatherless homes crisis: 43% of US children live without their father. This correlates with 90% of homeless youth, 85% of behavioral disorders, 85% of youth in prison, and 90% of repeat arsonists.
  • Porn addiction epidemic: Starting as young as 9-11 years old, chronic porn use creates desensitization, erectile dysfunction, unrealistic expectations, and replacement of real relationships.
  • Collapse of male spaces: Traditional male-oriented spaces like Boy Scouts have disappeared, leaving young men without mentorship or models for healthy masculinity.
  • Connor Beaton recommends that men spend two nights per week with male friends for optimal mental health. Building real friendships through taking social risks β€” joining teams, starting conversations β€” combats loneliness.
  • And much more...

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negotiation, psychology, geopolitics, disinformation, China, North Korea, crime and cults, and more. That'll help new listeners get a taste of everything we do here on the show. Just visit jordanharbinger.com slash start or search for us in your Spotify app to get started. Today on the show, a long overdue episode with my friend Connor Baton. He's the

0:54.8

founder of Man Talks, a men's mental health company. He's smart dude, we've been friends for years,

0:59.6

had a lot of offline conversations that have been particularly insightful, and I wanted to

1:04.0

share some of that with you all here as well. Today, we explore the loneliness epidemic in men,

1:09.0

fatherless boys, the decline in dating and relationships,

1:12.0

of course, with both genders, AI girlfriends, in cells, porn brain, and of course, my favorite

1:17.6

subject recently, I guess, dicks. Yes, a girthy tangent into the obsession over penis size,

1:23.1

and a whole lot more. Here we go with Connor Baton.

1:46.8

Thanks for doing this on short notice, man. I know we've been planning to do this for about eight years. A hot minute, man. A hot minute. I'm just glad to be here. Yeah. Let's talk about arson, in cells, and dicks. That's what we got today. That was great. Yeah. It's funny because I'm not actually joking. That's all in the notes. It was in the notes. Lots of stats. My wife was like,

1:51.5

why do you have a stat about repeat arsonists? And I was like, well, because it fits in on the

1:58.5

whole macro picture of, you know, kids without fathers.

2:03.4

I thought that was really interesting because I grew up in Detroit or the Detroit area.

2:07.4

And every, there's something called Devil's Night, which I don't even know if it exists outside

2:10.5

of Detroit, but it's the night before Halloween, I think.

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