The New Laws of Love: Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy

by Marie Bergström

Book Overview

Online dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two decades, seeking partners through commercial intermediaries went from being a marginal and stigmatized practice to being a common activity. How can we explain this rapid change and what does it tell us about the changing nature of love and sexuality?

In contrast to those who praise online dating as a democratization of love and those who condemn it as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150954352X
• ISBN13: 9781509543526
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"