A Guide To Dating For Over 40s In The New Era Of Divorce, STDs And Tinder
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The cause isn't entirely clear, but some studies suggest using dating apps can lead to riskier sexual behavior.
When her 20-year marriage ended in 2018, Kathryn Dunn discovered that dating was not as she remembered it.
Technology and a shifting culture had upended the standards of etiquette she had been familiar with.
Once upon a time, the 57-year-old civil servant met potential partners through friends, at parties or while out on the town - a world where flirting was mostly done politely. By comparison, online dating felt like the Wild West.
Sites displayed hundreds, even thousands, of potential matches. But Dunn found it was rare for any of the matches she made this way to evolve into relationships: Out of the 1,500 men she's chatted with online, she'd been on a first date with only between 20 and 30, and a second with just five or six.
