Modern Romance
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Love, lack of love, dating, population and babies, relationships and relationship advice
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AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 a Month to Masturbate—Yes, Really
“The four-week role is open to adults 18 and older in the U.S. and the U.K.”
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Do Unstylish Men Deserve Love?
“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.”
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The rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’
“Make me look like more of a chad,” I then instructed the chatbot.”
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The Quiet Grief of Adult Friendship
“Nobody teaches you how painful it feels to slowly lose access to someone who once knew your inner life intimately.”
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The love of your life is 5'7"
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Let's Hear It for Small Dicks and Short Sex!
“It could only be explained as men trying to disguise their wants as ours.”
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Hooters Restaurant Chain Is Trying to Rebrand as Family-Friendly
“I’ve asked my friends, ‘Is it weird we take our kids to Hooters?’” she said. “They’re like, ‘Yeah.”
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Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once
“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.”
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Guardian Blind Dates: 17 Years of Data
“The shape of a nation trying, with varying success, to fall in love over the starters.”
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You can never say the wrong thing to the right person
“You're not feeling like you're being hushed or shut down or belittled for being yourself.”
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The collapse of teen fertility in the digital era
“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.”
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Arousal Quantified: 7 Trends Revealed via Pornhub's Data
“What millions of searches and clicks say about sexual desire”
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Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Now Proves You're Human on Tinder
“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”
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Japanese Aquarium Drops 2026 Version of Flowchart Illustrating Their Penguin Relationships. This Year There's an English Version.
“Two aquariums in Japan have been keeping obsessive tabs on their penguins, maintaining annual flowcharts that visualizes all their penguin drama”
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Swingers at Sea: Fantasy Cruise
“An exploration of the swinging lifestyle aboard a fantasy cruise, where couples explore boundaries on the open seas”
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Why Smut Is Here to Stay
“I think people look back and remember how exciting it was when something was forbidden.”
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The loneliness crisis isn't just male
“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”
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Dear Men: Looksmaxxing Won't Save You (But Silliness Might)
“These are just tricks to perform masculinity for others rather than to examine it for ourselves.”
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Love Story 90s Nostalgia
“There's an article in the WSJ by someone calling herself a 'X-ennial' waxing nostalgic about the 'totally lame' 1990s”
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OpenAI adult mode erotic chatbot shelved indefinitely
“Mental health experts worried sexualized bots could turn into a "sexy suicide coach" for users”
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My Sweet, Smart Boyfriend Got Sucked into the Manosphere
“I was constantly walking on eggshells around him and essentially apologizing for existing”
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What happens when you have a 13-year affair with your therapist
“According to the documents, they began the meetings by talking and concluded by having sex.”
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Meet the New Era of Girlbosses
“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.”
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The New Infidelity
“For some of my friends, the celebrities a romantic partner follows can be just as big a dealbreaker as parenting or financial choices.”
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Maybe you should leave
“50% of all relationship advice on Reddit is “leave.”
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The Great Friendship Flattening
“Our relationships are becoming a part of that consumption behavior.”
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Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm
“I did not get into porn to format .pdfs.”
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The six-second hug
“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.”
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The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should
“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.”
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The Truth About Dating Younger Women
“If she is younger than your adult children, they will never forgive you for fucking their classmate.”
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The largest dataset on human sexuality ever assembled
“The largest survey dataset on human sexuality in the world is now yours to explore!”
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Handsome at Any Cost
“Because, like all Looksmaxxers, he believes any step toward increasing his beauty to be virtuous.”
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