Maria N. Scaptura is a PhD student at Virginia Tech, where she received her MS in sociology in 2019. Her research focuses on masculinity, involuntary celibates (“incels”), and violence. These areas converge in her dissertation project, in which she examines the men’s sexual health in relation to their perpetration of violence, erectile dysfunction, and sugar dating. Her work has been published in Crime & Delinquency, Men & Masculinities, and Feminist Criminology.