“Men are complicated! And the only way to figure a man out is to stay up until 4am psychotically digging through every single thing he’s ever said or clicked on the internet. Whether you’re investigating a new beau, and old fling, or every man you’ve ever met, here’s how to dig so deep down into his…”— Jasmine Pierce, reductress.com
“I've been deleting and reactivating Tinder for six years. You know you've had a dating app for too long when you start noticing people's personal growth. When you're swiping through like 'oh cool, Freddie420 went to grad school after all.'”— Dina Hashem, facebook.com
“I understand why society has such a resistant attitude towards women dating multiple men. It’s because it’s afraid of the power it gives us. If women dated like men did, it would place them back in the driver’s seat. They would know which man was treating them well, and which man wasn’t – in a heart…”— Katerina Lolita, thoughtcatalog.com
““Why do young women have sex with men they don’t want to have?” is a question that begs another question: “How has men telling their female peers for the first decade of their adult lives that they aren’t ready for commitment affected women’s self-worth and thus their ability to set sexual boundarie…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“At some point, I think a lot of women get the idea that nothing you have to say about your own dating experience really matters. The message sinks in slowly, over years, that women’s dating pain isn’t really a subject that the experts seem to care about. Obviously, if modern dating culture tortures…”— Holly Wood, medium.com
“Money is intrinsic to our sexual politics,” said Scott. “And it seems that no matter how enlightened we’ve become, the desire for men to get the check is an irresistible force deeply ingrained in our culture. It’s like the last vestige of a dated notion of chivalry, being carried out ad hoc by men a…”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“Look, I’m a feminist or whatever, but I still like it when a guy picks up the check on a date. I understand that in our post-gender, social-justice millennial era, the idea of subscribing to traditional gender roles in a relationship makes you an honorary fascist, and yet, I can’t help getting wet w…”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“Essentially, being the payer and the paid-for on a date replicates actual dom-sub sexual dynamics. But being a sub isn’t about not being in control—it’s about being in control of not being in control. There’s still power in relinquishing power.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“The younger generation is growing up at an exciting yet terrifying time: a time when connections can be made instantaneously, yet meaningful connections are becoming harder and harder to find.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to bleach my hair an unholy platinum, shed my sheep’s clothing, go out into the white light of January, hollering and howling.”— Kara Nesvig, thoughtcatalog.com
“Mobile dating went mainstream about five years ago; by 2012 it was overtaking online dating. In February, one study reported there were nearly 100 million people—perhaps 50 million on Tinder alone—using their phones as a sort of all-day, every-day, handheld singles club, where they might find a sex…”— Nancy Jo Sales, vanityfair.com
“Sadly, we've become a generation content with being in love with a love that isn't real.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“Often, when you’re out in the single world meeting people, you meet someone you like, get their number, and put it right in your phone, transforming them into an ‘option’ that lives in your device. Sometimes you and that option engage in some phone-based interaction and you meet up in person. But so…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“Asking a new person to go on a romantic outing has never been easy. It means declaring your attraction to someone and putting yourself out there in a huge way, while risking the brutal possibility of rejection -- or, in the modern era, even an unexplained, icy-cold silence.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com