Simone Paget
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SEX FILES: What's in and out for dating and relationships in 2025
With 2025 well on its way, we’re in the midst of “peak dating season” – a period between now and mid-February when swiping activity on dating apps is at its highest. But are dating apps really where we want to connect? And should we hand off the matchmaking duties to the robots? These are some of the questions we wrestled with in 2024 as we got real about what’s important to us and wrestled with whether artificial intelligence has any place in our personal lives.

SEX FILES: Love lessons I learned in 2024
This week, Spotify just dropped its annual Spotify-wrapped feature that allows us to judge our friends’ taste in music if they’re brave enough to share. Seeing the albums, songs, and music genres I’ve enjoyed over the past 12 months (apparently, May was all about “Serotonin Vogue Strut” for me – whatever that means!) gave me space to reflect on a few of the love lessons I’ve learned in 2024.

SEX FILES: Are you being 'snowglobed' this holiday season
The air has chilled, and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” can be heard approximately 37 times an hour. It’s safe to say that we are in the throes of the holiday season — and just in time for the yuletide, there’s a new disturbing dating term to add to our romantic lexicon: Snowglobing.

SEX FILES: Steamy and smitten -- How not being a jerk can heat up your marriage
I was staring mindlessly at my phone the other night when an Instagram reel stopped me mid-scroll. The title of the video was “Wives Who Still Like Their Husbands.” In the short clip , Lauren, a content creator who also goes by the name The Dadvocate, introduces herself, “I’m a lady that’s been with her husband for 10 years, and I still like to bone him,” before sharing five simple things that she feels has helped keep the spark alive in her marriage.
