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JustinFlaumenhaftFirstPaper 9 - 07 May 2022 - Main.JustinFlaumenhaft
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< | Dating refers to the practice of taking a romantic interest out for food, drinks, or entrainment. In Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating, Moira Weigel argues that modern dating emerged in the 19th century. According to Weigel, before the modern dating paradigm began, courtship was supervised in homes, synagogues, and other non-commercial spaces.This provided little privacy from the prying eyes of family and community members. As one observer of pre-1900s courtship rituals reflected, “privacy could be had only in public.” Modern dating, Weigel contends, “takes [the dating] process out of the home, out of supervised and mostly noncommercial spaces, to movie theaters and dance halls.” Increasingly, however, that process is supervised—supervised by online dating applications. | >
> | Dating (accompanying a romantic interest for food, drinks, or entrainment) is a well-established ritual of modern life. In Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating, Moira Weigel argues that modern dating emerged in the 19th century. According to Weigel, before the modern dating paradigm began, courtship was supervised in homes, synagogues, and other non-commercial spaces. This provided little privacy from the prying eyes of relatives: as one observer of pre-1900s courtship rituals reflected, “privacy could be had only in public.” Modern dating, Weigel writes, took “[the dating] process out of the home, out of supervised and mostly noncommercial spaces, to movie theaters and dance halls.”
Increasingly, however, dating is supervised—supervised by online dating applications. | | | The worldwide online dating pool includes hundreds of millions of users. In the United States, approximately 30% of adults and 49% of individuals aged 18-29 have used dating sites or applications. And a recent study of heterosexual American couples found that 39% met online, making it the most common way of meeting among the respondents. Dating now not only takes places in commercial settings, but is intermediated by commercial forces. Online datings applications have become the primary matchmakers of modern society. | | | But an additional factor to consider is the deeply imbedded drive for connection shared by most human beings.The desire for emotional and sexual companionship has propelled the propagation of our species and tied us together. It is these primal and powerful drives that the dating apps prey upon. As more and more people join dating apps, and fewer meet outside these walled gardens, the potential for connection on these apps increases, and their magnetic pull grows stronger.
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