App users recognise dating apps have some risks but they’ve developed a range of strategies to help them feel safer and to better negotiate consent and safe sex.
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Romance scammers are clever, well organised and have a number of tried techniques which make them highly successful. But there are ways you can avoid being scammed by a one-sided romance.
A feminist scholar wrote about her online dating experiences. She wasn’t expecting the avalanche of negative anti-feminist comments.
New research finds that people tend to prefer a specific personality type across partners - and its usually one that resembles their own.
Will your marriage be better if you and your partner are genetically compatible? Is there any evidence that certain genes make someone a better or worse partner? And if so, which genes should we test?
Online lies can often be easy to detect, by searching for images and phone numbers and exploring social media profiles. Some people lie anyway – and countless others take the bait.
Singles can face mistaken stereotypes and value judgments that they are less happy, or lonelier. For many, being single is simply a relationship preference or even an orientation.
Cultural differences play an important role in the experience of day to day activities, including online dating.
What to make of Grindr’s acquisition by a Chinese corporate group.
People with disabilities face barriers to sexual expression. New technologies can help, but we need to look at both the opportunities and risks these developments bring.
Researchers analyzed troves of messages sent between matches and found that the fibs people tell are usually rational ones that serve a purpose.
Data breaches are fact of modern life. It’s likely each of us will have our personal information compromised at some point. Here’s how to reduce the risk and limit the damage if and when it occurs.
The use of technology to enhance sexual pleasure is ancient. Now advances in AI have led to more lifelike sex dolls hitting the market – but sex robots aren’t the only innovations on the horizon.
Grindr, the largest queer dating app worldwide, is all about the short term hookup; the currency used to attract your date is physical fitness versus wealth symbols, used by straight men on Tinder.
Research shows that it’s all about choice, not exclusivity, when it comes to finding a perfect match.
Sharing data about users’ HIV statuses is bad enough. But why collect it in the first place?
The two cultural norms, which may on the surface seem completely different, are starting to converge.
The cheerleader effect describes the phenomenon that you appear more attractive in a group than solo - and it works for men as well as women.
Judges and juries may not appreciate the nuances of messages from online dating services used as evidence in trials.
Seven rules for break up in the digital age.
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Associate Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University
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British Academy postdoctoral fellow, University of Warwick
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
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Concordia University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Relationships, University of South Wales
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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