Letters on The Modern Dating Economy

The main reading is a series of letters sent between the writers Louise Perry and James Bloodworth. The letters discuss generally various aspects of modern dating and trek through feminism, economic changes, and capitalism s relationship to dating.

(P.S. For the audio learners: I ll try to find some podcasts where one or the two authors discuss similar ideas.)

There are some questions that extend from the main reading, but we don t need to stick to these questions during the discussion.

Possible Questions
- Are sexual mores "worse" than they were decades ago?
- Did the sexual revolution at last allow women to act as "entirely self-interested agents in the sexual marketplace" in the ways men supposedly always have been acting?
- Is non-platonic intimacy a psychological or emotional need for people?
- Does one gender have more privilege or power in the heterosexual marketplace than the other? Is this even the right question to ask?

Reading
- https://letter.wiki/conversation/789