Monia Hanna

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.

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.

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WhatsApp was so fast and anonymous that I was being honest, more quickly than I usually would with a new person. I felt that I was screaming everything I had ever wanted to say into outer space, into the unknown. But instead it was to David, to his shitty aviators and pencil-thin scarf. It didn’t matter. I knew that when I landed he’d be waiting fo... See more

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

“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. Eve... See more