Desire isn’t static, so why should your dating app be?
Feeld has always been a favourite among the curious. It’s also one of the last digital spaces where who we flirt with and how we identify can be truly fluid.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FEELD WORDS BY MEGAN WALLACE HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN Probably because I’m a sex writer, I think a lot about how we talk about desire, love and identity in the digital space.
And I know I’m not alone – by now, there’s a general consensus that we don’t really talk honestly about our experiences or wants online anymore.
Maybe it’s forced algospeak or the overuse of emojis, but genuine human connection online has been worsening by the day. As a result, we only seem to be able to talk about love, sex and relationships online in ways that are extremely orthodox and which, as a result, strip away the complexity and contradictions which make our own experiences so unique to us.
