online dating

For us lucky singletons, the pandemic presents yet another obstacle to finding one’s one true love (or a hook up, whichever way you are inclined). As someone who has found themselves the perfect Victorian style romantic pen pal, I feel I…

I’m a... Woman? Sometimes I feel like a lump but mostly, female. What’s your relationship status? Single, with fluctuating feelings of elation to extreme sadness towards this fact. What’s your ethnicity? Wow, are you really asking me…

Some names have been changed to protect privacy. I sat at the bar waiting for Bru twenty minutes past the time we had agreed to meet.  When he did arrive,  I recognised his spiky black hair from his photos.  It was a strained date.  He…

In this episode of Our Sexual History, myself and tech journalist, Roisin Kiberd discuss how the internet has changed the ways in which we date, form relationships, and find our communities. Here’s a recommended reading list from…

The phenomenon of living in the digital era is that despite being connected all the time via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, blogs and so on the number of people feeling lonely could be increasing. To run from this state of mind men and women…

You wake up, woefully hungover, and remember the hot guy or girl you chatted up in the queue for the bar but couldn’t find the rest of the night. Or maybe your eyes met in the middle of the best gig of your life but you never found out who…

Monday 9th February For a week I have trespassed in the valley of doubt. There were no words, just blank days filled with the monumental ordinariness of everything. I spent most of my time with the cat. The cat seems to understand. It…