Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Tinder has come to signify everything that is right, and wrong, with modern dating culture. Yep, you get good volume, but where’s the longevity? Well, despite shaping many fist-shaking headlines recently, turns out most of the world is actually looking for more than just face roulette. London-based Badoo is the top dating app across 21 of the world’s biggest…
“My job entailed selling packets of women’s names, addresses, and phone numbers for $25.00 to men who were horny but lazy.” “Hello, this is Tracey. Which ad are you answering?” “Tracey. This is Bob.” The man paused briefly, and I could hear the furtive sound of rustling trouser fabric. Bob forged ahead: “I saw an…
Whenever I was on a really bad date, I found it comforting to know that, as a deaf person with a cochlear implant, I could enter a world of total silence if I wanted to, blocking out whoever was sitting in front of me. On this one particular date though, I had no choice. I’d…
Photo Credit Brian Rea My interview with Justin McLeod was winding down when I tossed out one last question: “Have you ever been in love?” The baby-faced chief executive had designed Hinge, which was a new dating app. My question was an obvious throwaway. Justin looked stricken. No one, he said, had ever asked him…
It’s been widely and wrongly reported in recent days that Michigan passed a law making oral and/or anal sex illegal. A better way to put it: existing language making oral and anal sex illegal might stay on the books, because nobody wants to fight about it, because it would get messy. The story has exploded…
My boyfriend asked me to marry him on Christmas Eve. It was simple and straightforward, not unlike our relationship. He posed a sincere and direct question to which I provided a sincere and direct response. It was easy. Love isn’t all that complicated, I don’t think. That’s why we say we fall into it, passively…
Photo Credit Tomer Hanuka HARTFORD — “Where did I learn about sexual consent?” Jonathan Kalin was standing before an auditorium of Trinity College freshmen, pressing play on a clip from the movie “Superbad.” The 2007 film, you may recall, tells the story of two schlubby high school friends on a quest to lose their virginity…
Yes, this is a real site. NO I will not give the URL. Source: GIS Dating is a big topic in my household right now. For starters, my daughter is a teenager. Plus, I’m a single GeekDad now (help me). A lot of my friends in my same situation have been talking to me about…
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Miley Cyrus made headlines over the summer when she came out as pansexual, thereby introducing many people to a term that they may have heard before but don’t entirely understand. But pansexual is just one of many sexual and romantic identities that exist beyond more commonly known and discussed orientations like heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual. In fact, some…