Experts definitely have thoughts on this trend.

Emily Babcock had been swapping romance novels with her roommate for years when, back in 2023, she realized all of her friends were reading romance too. So she started what she called "smut book club, ...

If you use dating apps, you might have a love-hate relationship with them. On one hand, they expose you to people you wouldn’t otherwise meet; on the other, there seems to be an endless list of ...

The last woman I met on a dating app spent the night at my place after drinking too much, awoke at dawn, and drank her own contact lenses she put in a glass of water on my nightstand. After that, I ...

Gen Z's dating drought isn't about indifference to romance so much as a retreat from it, argues Christine Emba in a New York Times opinion piece on the rise of "looksmaxxing." She traces how a new ...

About 90 seconds into a three-minute hug with a stranger, I began to think that dying alone might not be so bad after all. I’d come to a candlelit loft in Manhattan for a “mindful singles event” ...

Romance, dating, and sexuality are core aspects of the human experience. Indeed, the vast majority of people strive for a meaningful and satisfying romantic relationship. Every day, millions of people ...