Ascension
Summer, 2026
What’s behind the manosphere’s obsession with a biblical term for transcendence?
OF THE MANY IDIOMS and bastardized buzzwords putzing around the internet these days, “ascension” has a welcome legibility to it. In the looksmaxxing community, an online subculture of mostly young men attempting to enhance their attractiveness and in turn increase their “sexual market value,” ascension describes the process of lofting into a different st...