In , while doing research for a book about the lives of teenage girls, Vanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales began to hear stories about dating apps, and how quickly they had taken over the dating scene for teens and young adults.
It was almost as though people projected their own anxieties about dating onto it. It premieres Monday, September She sat down with executives at Tinder, Bumble, and Match Group, in order to understand the ways these professionals think about their own work.
With more matches, though, comes more potential for sexual violence. Sales cites a study done in the U. And there are more quotidian horrors, too. Sales used a small crew to help make her interlocutors feel more comfortable, but she was still surprised by how many people cried during their interviews for the film.
Even though dating can often be seen as frivolous, Sales thinks the subject is deadly serious. Sales primarily hopes Swiped can be a way to start a conversation about respect.
What are manners? Manners are just thinking about how you make another person feel. This article has been corrected. Archive VF Shop Magazine. Save this story Save. Erin Vanderhoof Staff Writer.
