If you’re in a diner with a friend or a family member, it can be fun to look at the other couples around you to try to work out if they’re on a first date and how it’s going. Does he keep checking his phone? Is she playing with her hair? Will they sleep together …
Love triangles. Whilst they might be adored by most romantic comedy fans, anyone who’s ever been involved in one in real life might well argue that they are, in fact, the worst. Unfortunately, a lot of people have been in a love triangle at some point in their romantic lives and it’s easy to allow …
Dating etiquette has always been bizarre. It seems like every generation has a different take on the rules and what you are or are not allowed to do changes regularly. If I asked someone ten years older than me how long I should wait after a date before I called a woman, they might give …
In Yorkshire, England, in the 1970s a man stalked and killed women. The police, bumbling fools, dripping with incompetence, dismissed women who survived attacks, pursued obviously false leads and urged women to stay at home and act safely. There are so many issues with this, it’s difficult to comprehend. Firstly, women are most likely to …
A fun thing to do, if you’re ever in the mood to be utterly befuddled, is to read dating advice for different generations. A few years ago a quote from Hessiod, a Greek poet who lived 700 years before Jesus, went viral. It claimed that you should “not let a woman who decorates her buttocks …
Pride month is here. A time when the LGBT+ community can come together and celebrate love and acceptance. There are so many ways to recognise Pride month, from supporting LGBT+ people in your life to donating to LGBT+ charities and signing petitions and pressuring governments in queerphobic countries to encourage them to change laws and …
If you are young enough you might not even remember a time before dating apps existed. It feels almost quaint, really. But for thousands of years, people were meeting and mating without the assistance of Bumble or Tinder, when Hinge was just the sparkle in an innovator’s eye. For those of you who can’t imagine …
We live in a world full of digitized records. At some point, they’re inescapable: your bank account and hospital visits are digitized and any accounts or subscriptions will ask for personal data and then store that in a secure place online. Unfortunately, ‘secure’ doesn’t always mean reliable. For example, Gary McKinnon hacked into US military …
Quarantine has radically changed the way we communicate, with a lot of people fully switching to doing it online. To some it seemed a depressing time of stagnation with virtual dates. To others, it was a welcome exhalation from the conventional framework and the beginning of creativity. During this period, everyone went through several stages …
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed virtually everything about society. As the end of the pandemic appears to be on the horizon, many people are wanting to get back to normal in some form or fashion. Dating apps are helping the process of attaining normality with campaigns to help promote vaccinations. The governments of both …