Women do NOT place the same premium upon "getting laid."
You are making a fundamental error in implicitly assuming that 1) men and women have equal sex drives, and that 2) the "playing field" for men and women is level (i.e., they have equal opportunity to satisfy those unequal drives).
If a man could simply walk into a bar and proclaim, "I'll sleep with anyone of the opposite sex here!", and get "takers," then there would be no "epidemic" of male loneliness. The reverse scenario is NOT true.
A male in that age bracket has a biological time-bomb in his pants; he's producing roughly half a billion sperm per day; his sex drive consists in part of an actual physical urgency demanding periodic release.
In addition to that, there are the socio-psychological aspects such as the need for validation (which is why masturbation, alone, is not the answer). Women (online and in the real world) get validation galore (provided they aren't in the bottom 20%). Among men, only the top 20% are even perceived as existing.
Unless the article differentiates between the sexes, its basic thesis is severely flawed - tantamount to claiming that "inflation hits paupers and millionaires equally hard."
Regards,
Putting it that way seems to take a lot of the fun out of my experiences. Being an ex-sailor and adhereing to “any port in a storm” I see I was just a self gratifying cad who could get a “woody” thinking about “ boy I’m getting one I hope she don’t notice”. Getting back to lonely though, I was out of port a lot and felt enormously better in port. If that was lonely then I did that and worked hard while I was in port. Regards