Monia Hanna

His online presence became salt in her wound, “tormenting me by tweeting every five seconds.” Even when she stopped following him, she could not escape the retweets.

“one-night stand” is an anachronism. Even if you only have sex once, you will spend time with your hookup when he finds you on Facebook, appears in a mutual friend’s Instagram, or texts about a weird bump he found on his penis. Older generations didn’t have a word for this kind of thing—they couldn’t have. But these are, in fact, relationships.... See more

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have an addiction to WhatsApp or rather an addiction to loving David through WhatsApp. It was a fantasy portal—a pipe-dream space that I could free fall into whenever it was convenient for me.

All relationships are built on boundaries that both keep in and keep out. I had wanted an in-betweenness, but perhaps only because we couldn’t and didn’t cross the traditional boundaries.

If it weren’t for the circumstances, we might have fallen into a conventional romance. I’m afraid I’m only trying so hard to find an ambiguous fourth category for... See more

The primary difficulty with the process of meeting online, according to some psychologists, is that there is little similarity between a disembodied e-mail consciousness and a real-life encounter. As a result, it is impossible to tell how two people, no matter how much they like each other in a computer context, will get along in the real world.

But... See more

In the U.S. alone, toy sales driven by adults reached $1.5 billion in Q1 2024 , according to Circana.