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Are there new laws of Love in online dating?

A new book, The New Laws of Love: Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy, by Marie Bergström, a sociologist and researcher who works at the National Institute of Demographic Studies in France, explores this premise.

Is online dating the ‘privatisation of intimacy’?

She argues convincingly that the growing popularity of online dating has increasingly removed it from the public sphere, turning it into an entirely “domestic and individual practice”. She terms this the “privatisation of intimacy”.

Are dating apps making it easier to meet people?

And because dating apps have now become “the primary mechanism by which so many people are meeting,” this transposition has only become easier. The more online dating takes over the dating landscape, the easier it is to pin all one’s dating woes on dating apps, rather than dating itself.

What is the future of dating?

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How has the pandemic affected online dating?

From the earliest days of the pandemic, people have flocked to dating apps like never before, and those apps have the numbers to prove it. Major online dating platforms have been reporting major surges in activity since the earliest days of the pandemic, and those trends have held steady for the better part of the past year.

Is ‘dating app fatigue’ real?

According to Carbino, so-called “dating app fatigue” has only ever been a veil for more generalized dating frustration, the same kind that has plagued daters for generations.

Does privatization of intimacy make dating better?

Bergström’s “privatization of intimacy” doesn’t seem to have made dating any better. I realised too, while reading, that there is a strange, uncomfortable public side to all of this not covered in the book. It is now common for people to share screenshots of messages from strangers on dating apps on social media for public disapproval.

Are there new laws of Love in online dating?

Are dating apps making our behaviour more bizarre?

I’ve come to see a lot of the bizarre behaviour through this prism. The apps have created a dating landscape that is largely divorced from our normal social ecosystem of friends and acquaintances – people whose opinions we care about, who might judge us for ghosting someone or consistently treating dates badly.

Do the new laws of Love promote sexual liberation?

The New Laws of Love casts doubt on the idea that the ease with which we can meet large numbers of potential partners online is heralding a new era of sexual liberation.