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Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the future might just be good old-fashioned ...

55% are open to long-distance relationships that may never go offline. 48% are open to parallel relationships that split emotional and physical needs. 40% consider it acceptable to have a platonic ...

That’s what my new column Dear Dr. V is all about — real people sharing their intimate dilemmas in love, sex and relationships, and me helping them make sense of it all. Each week, I’ll respond to one ...

AI companionship has long been the subject of science fiction, but today, it's a real-world thing, too, quietly reshaping ...

Casual dating and “situationships” are now most common among younger people, with 11 per cent of Gen Z (those born roughly ...

Dating apps have transformed intimacy into a marketplace of frustration. They fuel gender conflict while ruthlessly extracting value from our most intimate desires.

Social Discovery Group, the company behind Dating.com and DateMyAge.com, announced it’s launched a venture studio that aims to “transform virtual intimacy into the new normal” by backing early-stage ...

Last night I went to dinner with two single friends. It was an impromptu invitation that I hesitated to accept. Usually, when I accept these invitations I end up regretting them. I hesitate to go out ...

Almost everything we’ve learned about dating is wrong, contends psychotherapist Ken Page, author of Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy. “Dating is an ...