"Apps, AI chatbots, survival amid stagnant wagesit's hard to think about romance, let alone sex, when simply being alive leaves us feeling drained of love. It was December 2024 when The Atlantic published Faith Hill's essay, "The Slow, Quiet Demise of American Romance," which observed American women trying to adopt the 4B movement out of South Korea. Remember that one? It was kind of a 21st century Lysistrata where participants"
"On paper, a spy comedy set during the Cold War sounds anything but steamy. But in Ponies, Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson play American widows who take over for their late husbands in the CIA and get up into all kinds of trouble as amateur agents. This include unexpected (and forbidden) romances with Russian assets. Expect things to get hot behind the Iron Curtain. Release date: January 15"
"View full post on YouTube The Beauty Based on the Image Comics series, The Beauty follows Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall as FBI agents who investigate a deadly sexually transmitted disease that turns the afflicted into beautiful yet dangerous people. Being a Ryan Murphy joint, expect the show to evoke the dark vibes of The Substance, in which a person's worth is only skin-deep. Release dat"
Dating in 2026 faces app fatigue, AI chatbots, stagnant wages, and emotional exhaustion that reduce interest in romance and sex. Some women experimented with the 4B movement from South Korea, renouncing sex, dating, marriage, and children as a reaction to patriarchal pressures. In 2025 there was a rise in people forming romantic connections with artificial intelligence instead of flesh-and-blood partners. Binge-watching sexually charged television serves as vicarious relief and escapism. Anticipated 2026 series include Ponies, a Cold War spy comedy about widow-agents and forbidden Russian romances, and The Beauty, about a deadly STI that renders people dangerously beautiful.
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