Not all dating advice is created equal. These articles examine popular guidance from relationship coaches, influencers, and self-help authors—separating evolutionary insight from pseudoscience and marketing.
Age-gap relationships are only scandalous when men are older—and the data and hypocrisy prove it On April 7, Sydney Sweeney walked the red carpet at the Euphoria Season 3 premiere. Inside the theater, she sat next to Scooter Braun—44 years old, sixteen years her senior—and the internet erupted. “Scandalous.” “Awkward.”…
50 years before Tinder’s swipe-based dating dynamics, Harvard students sparked the digital dating revolution with punch cards, algorithms, and a quest for campus romance. This was the beginning of the dating revolution. In the winter of 1965, two Harvard undergraduates had an idea that would change courtship forever. Or so…
Over 100 years of hidden harems Our monogamy is constantly varied by polygyny, or pseudo-polygamy, lacking the sanctions and responsibilities of Mohammedan plurality. That’s not a hot take from a controversial dating podcast. It’s from a book published in 1914, written by Walter M. Gallichan, an Edwardian sexologist who spent…
Overcoming early wounds to build lasting, secure relationships In 2022, a viral TikTok trend called “traumacore” saw millions of young adults creating videos that aestheticized their childhood wounds—absent fathers, emotionally unavailable mothers, households of chaos—set to melancholic music and vintage filters. The comments overflowed with variations of “this is literally…
Note: This piece was originally written around 2015, during the peak of the dating TV show and the rise of relationship-focused formats like The Bachelor. A decade later, the genre has only grown more dominant—migrating heavily to streaming platforms, going global with international versions, and experimenting with new twists like…
Dating tips in time for Valentine’s Day Women aren’t always clear about what they find attractive in a partner, as frustrating and alluring as that can be for many men. To be more specific, a woman’s criteria for finding “Mr. Right” can change over time—according to context and her own…
Myanmar matches with the new swipe culture 36-year-old Sandar Win chats with her two friends at Amazon Coffee, distracting herself with a smartphone in one hand. She smiles and flashes them a picture of a man called “Simon,” who’s 41 and is sitting on the back of a jet ski.…
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