Since April 2007, New York magazine has posted online sex diaries. People send in personal accounts of their nighttime quests and conquests. Some of the diaries are unusual and sad. There's a laid-off banker who drinks herself...
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David Brooks thinks cellphones are bad, bad, bad! not just for our brains, but for romantic love: Once upon a time — in what we might think of as the “Happy Days” era — courtship was governed by a set of guardrails. Potential...
Over the past few decades, the social scripts of courtship have become obsolete, writes columnist David Brooks. Technology, especially cellphone and texting technology, dissolves obstacles. Suitors now contact each other in an...
That's been the experience of many young people in their teens, twenties, and early thirties as they try to satisfy the wonderful and awesome human yearning for finding true love. The problem is that the cultural pathways,...