How empty and shallow the world has become. I was completely turned off by the men boasting of their sexual conquests in this article. However, it is not surprising in a world that celebrates being savage, living a poly lifestyle and who regularly attack others turned off by the explicitly of lyrics. It is tragic when people claim someone is talented based off of their ability to exchange a few text messages and wind up in bed with a total stranger β it is no wonder we elected someone like Trump into office.
Everyone is drinking, peering into their screens and swiping on the faces of strangers they may have sex with later that evening. Or not. Her friends smirk, not looking up. At a booth in the back, three handsome twentysomething guys in button-downs are having beers.
They are Dan, Alex, and Marty, budding investment bankers at the same financial firm, which recruited Alex and Marty straight from an Ivy League campus. Names and some identifying details have been changed for this story. In fact, they can remember whom Alex has slept with in the past week more readily than he can.
Asked what these women are like, he shrugs. And yet a lack of an intimate knowledge of his potential sex partners never presents him with an obstacle to physical intimacy, Alex says. As the polar ice caps melt and the earth churns through the Sixth Extinction, another unprecedented phenomenon is taking place, in the realm of sex.
Hookup culture, which has been percolating for about a hundred years, has collided with dating apps, which have acted like a wayward meteor on the now dinosaur-like rituals of courtship. People used to meet their partners through proximity, through family and friends, but now Internet meeting is surpassing every other form. Mobile dating went mainstream about five years ago; by it was overtaking online dating. The comparison to online shopping seems an apt one. Dating apps are the free-market economy come to sex.
