Modern Romance

“How much space might be freed up for other endeavors if those of us who find the whole thing exhausting just … took our attention elsewhere?”

“Health is becoming the new status marker and, perhaps, the ultimate status signal.”

“Goblin dolls are a really hot trend now, Formosa's rep tells me.”

“Besides the iPhone, what else was happening from 2008-2011? The Great Recession.”

“A “goal-gasm,” if you will.”

“An emotional marketplace.”

“The four-week role is open to adults 18 and older in the U.S. and the U.K.”

“In fact, I think it is quite chic for a woman to aesthetically outshine her partner. It suggests a good deal of confidence on his part, and a self-assuredness on hers.”

“Make me look like more of a chad,” I then instructed the chatbot.”

“Nobody teaches you how painful it feels to slowly lose access to someone who once knew your inner life intimately.”

“It could only be explained as men trying to disguise their wants as ours.”

“I’ve asked my friends, ‘Is it weird we take our kids to Hooters?’” she said. “They’re like, ‘Yeah.”

“there is a “fertility gap” between goals and outcomes, due to frictions and frustrations that have much to do with modern lifestyles — including our homes and, increasingly, our phones.”

“The shape of a nation trying, with varying success, to fall in love over the starters.”

“You're not feeling like you're being hushed or shut down or belittled for being yourself.”

“Once enough teens are on the phone, being on the phone is where the peer network is; in-person time falls sharply, and with it the unstructured contact in which most unintended teen conceptions occur.”

“What millions of searches and clicks say about sexual desire”

“Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they're a real human, provided they've already stared into one of World's glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned”

“Two aquariums in Japan have been keeping obsessive tabs on their penguins, maintaining annual flowcharts that visualizes all their penguin drama”

“An exploration of the swinging lifestyle aboard a fantasy cruise, where couples explore boundaries on the open seas”

“I think people look back and remember how exciting it was when something was forbidden.”

“when you look at the data, the "antisocial crisis," as I like to call it, is actually most pronounced among young women, who experience the highest rates of social isolation”

“These are just tricks to perform masculinity for others rather than to examine it for ourselves.”

“There's an article in the WSJ by someone calling herself a 'X-ennial' waxing nostalgic about the 'totally lame' 1990s”

“Mental health experts worried sexualized bots could turn into a "sexy suicide coach" for users”

“I was constantly walking on eggshells around him and essentially apologizing for existing”

“According to the documents, they began the meetings by talking and concluded by having sex.”

“They want to be rich and successful but don't want to hold a job. They want to have a woman at home to cook and clean and bear their children but still want to live a bachelor lifestyle and sleep around without consequences. Above all, though, they want to feel like an alpha male while playing the role of a misunderstood victim.”

“For some of my friends, the celebrities a romantic partner follows can be just as big a dealbreaker as parenting or financial choices.”

“50% of all relationship advice on Reddit is “leave.”

“Our relationships are becoming a part of that consumption behavior.”

“I did not get into porn to format .pdfs.”

“For a long time, I have been privately lamenting the instrumentalisation of everything: how nothing seems to be of value in itself anymore but is only seen as useful in the service of some utilitarian function.”

“I realised that there is a sort of unwritten code you learn as you get older, which enables you to assess whether a conversation is a good idea or not.”

“If she is younger than your adult children, they will never forgive you for fucking their classmate.”

“The largest survey dataset on human sexuality in the world is now yours to explore!”

“Because, like all Looksmaxxers, he believes any step toward increasing his beauty to be virtuous.”