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LoginLoneliness is a powerful motivator. T he Australian TV drama series Fake, which premiered this week, tells the story of a woman who falls in love with a phoney she meets on a dating app. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads. There was the one who revealed on our third date that he was currently sleeping with three women, none of whom knew about each other, including his ex-wife. She had apparently lifted up her dress and was wearing no panties, so what else could he do? That should have been the tipping point. Proof that interpersonal trust passed its expiry date at the turn of the millennium.
A new trend is sweeping TikTok: boysober. Its rules? No dating apps, no dates, no exes, no hookups. Thousands of women are uploading videos describing why they have gone boy sober and extolling its benefits.
I n season 2 of Sex and the City, Miranda — one of the main characters having sex in the city — gets asked out in an elevator. The man who asks her out is a recently divorced dad with an annoying son. Things end poorly. But the episode made Shanae, a year-old Californian and part of the gen Z wave repopularizing the show , feel envious.
Many of us have had bad experiences of being swiped left, ghosted, breadcrumbed and benched on internet dating apps — though few people have ever thought to take their heartbreak to court. The game-like element is further exemplified in the deck-of-cards-style interface first used by Tinder. Whether dating apps discourage longer-term romantic connection is harder to pin down.
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