Dating

A man and a women sit on the grass together at twilight

When romance meets ratios

Gender

Dating and demographics are surprisingly intertwined.

Instagram

Indonesia’s newest Gen Z craze? Marrying someone you’ve never even dated.

Aziz Ansari, the comedian and actor teamed up with a sociologist from New York University, Eric Klinenberg to take the pulse of global romance in the early 21st century.

Strangers around the world gave Aziz Ansari the most intimate details of their romantic lives — their text messages

Books
Email

What do your emails say about your relationship? A lot.

Lifestyle
An Iranian woman holds up her hand, painted with henna, under a religious sentence as she prepares for a wedding ceremony in the city of Qeshm on Qeshm Island at the Persian Gulf, November 1, 2006. The sentence reads, "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent

You’re a Muslim who’s not supposed to date. How do you find love?

Belief
About 38 percent of American singles have used an online dating website or app.

A dating site that gives women more control

Lifestyle

While plenty of American women find love and connections on traditional dating sites, many have been subjected to misogynist comments, hostility and threats. Here’s a dating site where women have more control.

For the first time, single people make up the majority of the American adult population, up from just 22 percent in 1950.

Singles now outnumber married people in America — and that’s a good thing

Lifestyle

In 1950, singles were just 22 percent of the adult population. Now, they’ve taken over. More than half of American adults are single, and that may have some surprising benefits — from the way people join civic groups and socialize to how they take part in the lives of their hometowns.

Cyber Cyrano helps online daters

Global Politics

A therapist and life coach from Brooklyn helps clients craft their online dating profiles and woo potential matches.

Job Interviews Borrow from the Speed-Dating Handbook

We’ve all heard of speed-dating; that modern mating ritual in which singles are given a minute or two to impress a potential date before moving aside so the next candidate to make his or her pitch. But speed-dating methods aren’t just for dating anymore. Recruiters from a few companies are now enlisting the tactics of […]

The World

Texting While Dating!

Arts, Culture & Media

Taking a phone call during a date is one thing. But is it okay to write a text message? What about emailing, or tweeting? Kate Dailey, writer of Newsweek’s Human Condition Blog, and her friend Steve Calachman join The Takeaway to voice their opinions.