Your Parents Were Having Way More Sex Than You
Playboy Filed
“Our research confirmed that the sex recession is real.”
SHELF No. 13
Modern Romance
Love, the lack of love, and being a good human to other humans.
PREVIOUSLY FILED
AI and the Internet Create Intimacy on Easy Mode
ZINE Sent
“We’ve gone so far as to put a plate of glass between each other, like in the visitation room of a secure prison.”
Playboy 2026 Gen Z Sex Survey
Playboy Sent
Everybody is horny but no one is fucking — Playboy surveys 2,373 adults ages 18–29 on the sex recession, in partnership with the Kinsey Institute.
Gen Z Wants to Have More Sex—They Just Can't Afford It
Playboy Sent
“Have you heard, in the center of your skull, a raging medley of the apocalypse while waiting for someone to free your eight-ounce cylinder of nighttime moisturizer from its cage?”
Ethical AI Monogamy…?
default.blog Sent
“Does a healthy society "require" a person to remain romantically available to other humans?”
Want to Have More Sex? Move to New York.
The Playboy Reader Sent
If you shower and are a decent person, if you have a job, if you have a place, a bed frame—the standard is so low and so easy to meet, it’s really sad and pathetic if someone feels like they’re lonely outside of their own choice.
Dating Apps Left Me Wondering: Do Men Not Want to Have Sex?
The Walrus Sent
“Third base is the in-person meetup, which is the least frequent outcome on dating apps.”
China Bans AI Romantic Partners, Virtual Relatives for Minors
Sixth Tone Filed
...any services deemed as designed to foster emotional connection and interaction.
The Cult of the Enhanced Self
Derek Thompson (Substack) Sent
“Health is becoming the new status marker and, perhaps, the ultimate status signal.”
No, the iPhone (probably) didn't lower the birth rate
Data for Health (Substack) Sent
“Besides the iPhone, what else was happening from 2008-2011? The Great Recession.”
Online dating apps actually increased the share of single people
LinkedIn Sent
Despite their promise to help people find love, dating apps have coincided with a significant increase in the number of single adults since online dating's popularization
Far-right groups prey on it: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness
The Guardian Sent
Even the lonely have a tendency to believe that loneliness is their own fault, a product of something essentially dislikable in their own being.
America's Real Social Crisis Is the Rise of Solitude
Derek Thompson Sent
“The problem isn’t that men are lonely. The problem is that many men wouldn’t recognize loneliness if it punched them in the gut and poured a beer on their head.”
Girls Carrying Shit, Girls Who Cluster, and Girl Dinner Diaries
Community Catalysts Sent
We are living through a moment when people have never been more visible, and yet often feel profoundly unseen.
Why so many young people are training to be death doulas
Dazed Sent
“What’s more rewarding at the end of the day? A half a percentage increase in KPI, or connecting with a human being on a very real level?”
AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 a Month to Masturbate—Yes, Really
Decrypt Sent
“The four-week role is open to adults 18 and older in the U.S. and the U.K.”
Do Unstylish Men Deserve Love?
Sexual Culture Sent
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.
The rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’
The Guardian Sent
“Make me look like more of a chad,” I then instructed the chatbot.”
The Quiet Grief of Adult Friendship
Times of India Sent
“Nobody teaches you how painful it feels to slowly lose access to someone who once knew your inner life intimately.”
Let's Hear It for Small Dicks and Short Sex!
Playboy Sent
It could only be explained as men trying to disguise their wants as ours.
Arousal Quantified: 7 Trends Revealed via Pornhub's Data
ZINE Sent
“What millions of searches and clicks say about sexual desire”
Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Now Proves You're Human on Tinder
Wired Sent
“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”
Japanese Aquarium Drops 2026 Version of Flowchart Illustrating Their Penguin Relationships. This Year There's an English Version.
Spoon & Tamago Sent
“Two aquariums in Japan have been keeping obsessive tabs on their penguins, maintaining annual flowcharts that visualizes all their penguin drama”
Swingers at Sea: Fantasy Cruise
Playboy Sent
An exploration of the swinging lifestyle aboard a fantasy cruise, where couples explore boundaries on the open seas
The loneliness crisis isn't just male
The Argument Sent
“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”
Dear Men: Looksmaxxing Won't Save You (But Silliness Might)
Another New Thing with Kareem Rahma Sent
“These are just tricks to perform masculinity for others rather than to examine it for ourselves.”
OpenAI adult mode erotic chatbot shelved indefinitely
The Verge Sent
“Mental health experts worried sexualized bots could turn into a "sexy suicide coach" for users”
My Sweet, Smart Boyfriend Got Sucked into the Manosphere
Bustle Sent
“I was constantly walking on eggshells around him and essentially apologizing for existing”
What happens when you have a 13-year affair with your therapist
Granta Sent
“According to the documents, they began the meetings by talking and concluded by having sex.”
Meet the New Era of Girlbosses
Playboy Sent
“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.”
The Great Friendship Flattening
The Atlantic Sent
“Our relationships are becoming a part of that consumption behavior.”
The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should
The Guardian Sent
“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.”
The Truth About Dating Younger Women
Playboy Sent
“If she is younger than your adult children, they will never forgive you for fucking their classmate.”
The century of the maxxer
samkriss.substack.com Sent
“The maxxer is not trying to have an enjoyable life. He’s trying to reduce himself to a single principle.”
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The 2026 Pleasure Census
HUD App Sent
“Pleasure is one of the few subjects people still quietly lie about. So we removed every reason to.”
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The Fake '80s Dating Tapes Taking Over Instagram
The New York Times Sent
Well, that — how would it feel to be in love is like — I really — I would really, really, really like to know.
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ChatGPT, Claude Infiltrate Dating Apps by Helping Singles Flirt With Matches
Bloomberg Filed
“a phenomenon where the connection that develops over text is with the AI model's charm, not the person relying on it for dating advice”
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The incredible freedom of not trying to look good
The Atlantic Sent
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?
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Friendship Startups for Loneliness Have a Business Model Problem
Bloomberg Sent
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While worker robots boom, sex robots have busted
Business Insider Sent
Goblin dolls are a really hot trend now, Formosa's rep tells me.
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The love of your life is 5'7"
TikTok Sent
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Hooters Restaurant Chain Is Trying to Rebrand as Family-Friendly
The New York Times Sent
“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
The Financial Times Sent
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
blinddates.rory.codes Sent
“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
Tanner Devore Sent
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
Marginal Revolution Sent
“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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Why Smut Is Here to Stay
Vanity Fair Sent
“I think people look back and remember how exciting it was when something was forbidden.”
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Love Story 90s Nostalgia
Wall Street Journal Sent
“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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The New Infidelity
The Atlantic Sent
“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
Aakash Gupta Sent
“50% of all relationship advice on Reddit is “leave.”
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The six-second hug
Aeon Sent
“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 largest dataset on human sexuality ever assembled
Big Kink Survey Sent
“The largest survey dataset on human sexuality in the world is now yours to explore!”
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Handsome at Any Cost
The New York Times Sent
“Because, like all Looksmaxxers, he believes any step toward increasing his beauty to be virtuous.”