Interesting article on modern sex

Quite a few friends feel the same way.
Mostly older millennials and religious conservatives.
They are quite annoyed with religious dating sites and blind dating events.
Plenty have joined offline matchmaker agencies, social groups like dinnerdates and expensive introductions services exclusively for singles that want to find a compatible spouse & coparent.

Have you heard about Nick Hatter's soon to be launched dating business?
Its designed to combined ways of meeting new single people online and providing the membership with access to courses/relationship coaching & professional feedback data.

Traditional Dating Club is aimed at people 25+ who are genuinely seeking a romantic relationship regardless of job, gender or race.
Potential members are instructed to submit an image of themselves in modest dress, no beachwear or undergarments and must specify that they are looking for long term love.
The founder set up the site (originally named Old Style Dating) as an "antidote to throw-away internet dating culture" and "to bring back old fashioned romance” after her daughter got fed up of modern online dating.

Interesting. No I hadn’t heard about Nick Hatter. Do you have a link to his initiative?

ermm I'm too lazy to read all of it haha. Can anyone simplify it down?

A friend in her 30s sent me this link.

If you are too lazy to read then you won’t benefit from this discussion.

Personally I long for old fashioned dating and relationships. However, I'm not confident to do so. I don't want to take the risk of failing.

Can anyone relate?

Link to article below.

https://unherd.com/2022/01/the-death-of-intimacy/?fbclid=IwAR0D3h1-wZCgaliKGjfiRPhy2McCTmMT58Ctc3rH78SZQAShsm8jmnBtC4A

Wth is "old fashioned dating and relationships"? Is it like when guys were romantic and had chivalry?

The whole dating app stuff disgusts me, if you want a wife or whatever go out and do it in the real world and not online.

How old are you?

No, that’s your interpretation.

It’s when people met not on dating apps, but in person. It was when guys weren’t afraid to ask women out without being accused of inappropriateness. It’s when dating was seen as courtship not a sexual encounter. It’s when people dated with the view to start a relationship and possibly get married. Not date to have sexual encounters. I thought that would have been obvious.

How old are you?

No, that’s your interpretation.

It’s when people met not on dating apps, but in person. It was when guys weren’t afraid to ask women out without being accused of inappropriateness. It’s when dating was seen as courtship not a sexual encounter. It’s when people dated with the view to start a relationship and possibly get married. Not date to have sexual encounters. I thought that would have been obvious.

That is none of your business.

And your post was rather ambiguous hence why I asked the question. And I approach girls all the time.

That is just your interpretation. I have never used dating apps and I know a lot of guys who don't either. I think its dying out tbh.

Conventional dating has not gone away. There is nothing to stop you from going on a few dates and drifting into a relationship. It is easy to avoid online dating. So I find the entire premise that there was some golden age of dating that we've now lost is flawed. We just have more options if you wish to pursue them.

Gave up half-way through the article. It was meandering and trite.

Conventional dating has not gone away. There is nothing to stop you from going on a few dates and drifting into a relationship. It is easy to avoid online dating. So I find the entire premise that there was some golden age of dating that we've now lost is flawed. We just have more options if you wish to pursue them.

But covid & many of the pandemic restrictions and their direct consequences have drastically altered the dating landscape for most single adults seeking a relationship primarily through offline means.