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Generation Swipe
Generation Swipe
The tunnel of love at a fun fair in Palisades Park, New Jersey. (Harvey Meston via Getty Images)
Tinder promised it would revolutionize romance. So why are my peers lonelier and more sex-deprived than ever?
By Suzy Weiss
09.11.22 — Culture and Ideas
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Generation Swipe

Every generation thinks they have it the hardest when it comes to finding love, but it’s hard to look at mine and conclude that we don’t have a good case. Never before have young people been having so little sex—at least not since we began counting such things. Never before have young people been lonelier. Never before have we been stalked so thoroughly…

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Suzy Weiss

Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.

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