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Re:Sex is going out of fashion? by threeseed on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:05AM (#31823433)
> I do wonder if the act of dating has gotten substantially less fun than it was in the past

I wonder if people are simply more selective about what they want in a partner.

Which sort of lines up with the polarisation we see in other aspects of society.

And so they go into dating with much higher expectations and less open-mindedness.

Re:Sex is going out of fashion? by cupofpython on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:33AM (#31825106)
possibly related. When you are forced to look at someones data sheet to decide on them rather than see them in public being themselves - it seems natural to get sucked into coming up with check-lists on a bunch of qualities you otherwise would not have actually cared about as a means of simplifying your choosing process