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The edifice of monogamy
Read moreMonogamy is ascendant as a sacred cow, and the fact of rampant infidelity is taken as evidence not of a problem with how we think about fidelity, but of widespread depravity.
Happn
Read moreA new dating app that’s sort of like Tinder, but creepier. Christine is less than 500 meters away.
How i consume your porn
Read moreThe thrill isn’t in the image — it’s in the compliance. A catalog of the personalized porn women send me, and how I actually consume it.
The women of snapchat: emily
Read moreEmily sends me self-destructing nudes on Snapchat to protect herself, but won’t send the clothed photos I actually want by e-mail.
Holidays
Read moreHolidays disrupt everything — writing, playing, routine. But I took my Tinder on the road, and apparently I’m catnip west of the Hudson.
Women i’ve never met: lauren
Read moreLauren is young, short, incredibly busty, and for a hot moment, incredibly compliant — until she wasn’t.
Paean, or abortive pick-up
Read moreA woman on a train who may or may not be someone I know, and who may or may not want me to take her home.
I often seem to misunderstand
Read moreTinder is teaching me that not everyone treats interactions — virtual or otherwise — as real. I do, and it stings when that’s not reciprocated.
Tinder
Read moreTinder has suspended me again, mid-conversation with a handful of matches, and I hate being the guy who just disappears.
A tinder message i enjoyed
Read moreA woman on Tinder appreciates my… specificity.
Paean?
Read moreA beautiful woman’s gaze on a street corner — forward, warm, unreadable.
The varieties of tinder experience
Read moreA taxonomy of the women I don’t enjoy interacting with on Tinder, which is to say, nearly all of them.
A sub with a non-dom
Read moreA gorgeous woman from Tinder writes me for advice about her vanilla boyfriend. I do my best, conflicted as I am.
Farewell to sofia
Read moreShe never once tripped the wire of my fragile desire, and now she’s gone.
Polyamory in the new yorker
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Oiseau
Read moreShe reminded me of a bird — tiny, fragile, shivering when I placed my hand on her throat.
Abandonment on tinder
Read moreShe showed me everything, promised me more, and then vanished — not even a goodbye, just the silent void of a disappeared Tinder thread.
Sex trafficking
Read moreAn unfinished, scattered meditation on sex trafficking — what I know, what I don’t, and the joyless workplaces that aren’t limited to the sex industry.
A first date
Read moreMy presumption is that you’re a slut who’s going to do exactly as I say.
Fucking tinder
Read moreTinder, once again, has decided I can’t be trusted to talk to people.
