Dating and intimacy worries

DW on how people datte in 2025

Funny light piece from the Daily Show about AI girlfriends

Good interview with Scott Galloway about masculinity

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country’s economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

The Burned Haystack Method is a dating strategy that encourages users to actively block profiles that don't meet their standards, making it easier to find suitable matches. This approach focuses on being selective and efficient in online dating, reducing time spent on unproductive interactions.

Paired up by a dating program that puts an expiration date on all relationships, Frank and Amy soon begin to question the system's logic.

Tinder has launched a new AI-powered game, The Game Game, designed to help users refine their conversation skills in a simulated dating scenario. The game, created in collaboration with OpenAI, features a voice-based chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to mimic real-life conversations.

explore the cultural shifts and challenges that are fueling the “relationship recession.” Drawing inspiration from the Netflix series Adolescence, we’ll dive into the disillusionment many men are facing, the frustrations women are experiencing, and the hidden dynamics making connection feel so elusive.

Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.

Section where the hosts create a dating profile with AI and A/B test it

Community and connecting with others being prescribed in the UK

BBC on how effective dating apps are?

Rental system to help mainly with men and loneiness in Japan

A 2023 YouGov survey has found that almost half (46%) of Brits say their dating app experiences have been bad.

Page 50 on dating in the UK

Meeting people in real life is hard, maybe harder these days than ever before. When you meet someone in real life and want to ask them on a date, you’re taking a big risk. And we’re all hyper-aware of that risk, well, most of us. The odd thing about this is that even with all of their issues, dating apps seem to work.

The problems with Dating apps and data

When I met my husband, who happens to be white, he told me that he was always seeing women with blonde hair on Tinder and he’s not really into blondes. No matter how many times he had swiped left on blondes, the algorithms were always recommending them to him, presumably because pop culture dictates that white men prefer blondes.

The founder of a dating app designed for people with ADHD and autism says he launched it after feeling like he had become "addicted" to dating.