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Online dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two decades, seeking partners through commercial intermediaries went from being a marginal and stigmatized practice to being a common activity. How can we explain this rapid change and what does it tell us about the changing nature of love and sexuality? The answers to these questions are not what we commonly hear. In my book The New Laws of Love. Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy (Polity, 2022), I draw on a wide range of empirical sources that challenge what we think we know about online dating, and give us a radically new understanding of who, why, and how people go online to seek sex and love.
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