Some self-identified MGTOWs see women as hypergamous and manipulative. According to Futrelle, the "central MGTOW myth" may be that of the "cock carousel": the idea that women spend their youth "flitting from alpha male to alpha male in an endless utopia of casual sex [...] Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of men in their teens and early 20s live in a parched sexual desert, scorned by women".[14][15] In Digital Environments, Lin writes: