Men who have sworn to never sleep with another woman after deciding that men are victims in relationships have their own online society.

MGTOW, or Men Going Their Own Way, is an online movement that has attracted thousands of anti-feminist men who have decided that women are more trouble than they are worth and, in fact, are holding men back from reaching their potential.

Scouring the community's Reddit thread, which has over 15,000 subscribers, and the MGTOW.com web forums, readers can find topics being discussed that include everything from the 'craziest women you have ever dated' to 'why women are getting fatter'.

Ranting from home: Men who have decided to never engage in relationships with women have an online community where they rage against the opposite sex and champion masculinity

The men subscribing to the ethos of the movement believe that they are fighting for male sovereignty against women who would would otherwise treat them 'like a disposable utility'.

However, that description attracts those with a lack of respect or even an abject hatred of women that not only pervades its forums, but is even spelled out in the history section of the website.

There, the writer argues - incorrectly naming TIME magazine as a source while linking to an article reporting on the facts of a British Medical Journal-published study - that because men have been proven to take more 'idiotic' risks than women that this is why they are more successful than women in the history of invention. He even relabels the wage gap as an 'accomplishment gap'.

He complains that 'men are no longer revered or respected on a most basic level for their contributions and past sacrifices' and should therefore avoid relationships with women entirely.

Despite the movement's championing of bravery-as-masculinity, it hides the identity of its founder or founders by claiming its history is too convoluted and goes back too far to document, and even compares its rise to the discovery of fire, adding that 'perhaps feminism is gasoline'.

In fact, the members of the community do not see feminism as a movement for equality, but rather something that infringes on the rights of men.

Users in the forums rage against 'career women' but also spew bilious prose about women they perceive to be 'gold-diggers'. Men brag about dumping women who proved themselves to be 'feminazis' but also about fooling their past sexual conquests.

Some of the topics boast such titles as 'The state exists only to transfer your money to women' and 'The “Domestic Abuse” machine as an apparatus for men’s enslavement'.

This is beyond the fat-shaming, slut-shaming and even age-shaming that is rife throughout the site. Its users also seem to align themselves firmly with the so-called alt-right.

The website even has instructions for how members can reach certain 'levels', borrowing one plot device from movie The Matrix to describe themselves as 'red pill' men who have expunged a period of unenlightened 'blue pill' existence from their lives.

The first level, 0, sees men come to the realization that feminism is the enemy and women are manipulative liars, followed by level one, where they decide to no longer engage in meaningful relationships, only sexual ones.

In level two, even sex is ruled out. The final level, four, is when a member has become fully enlightened.