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apps on your smartphone that will help few of your images
you find love, sex all within a few clicks. Step 3 – The algorithm matches people
From speed dating to finding someone on who have similar interest with you as per
these apps, you can reach millions across your profile.
geographies or someone in your immediate Step 4 - You can swipe right in case you
neighbourhood. The apps help you start a are interested in profile.
conversation, both parties are aware that Step 5 – The person whose profile you
sex could be the final destination. You can swiped on will get a notification with your
create your own profile, look for a partner profile.
exactly the way you desire. People are Step 6 – In case the said person is
putting up badges indicating what they are interested in your profile, he or she will
looking for. Something casual or that they swipe right and you will be matched after
are polyamorous, or kinky, gay, lesbian. which you can start chatting with the
One can express their wants and needs in person.
advance. Growing up in the seventies and eighties,
I remember describing sexual activity
by reference to a football match. Penalty,
offside, corner and finally Goal. There was
never any doubt as to what “Goal mara
ki nahi” meant or “Game bajaya kya”. To
score a goal was to go all the way to finish
the game. Although Seventies was an era of
free love with slogans such as “make love
not war”, this never made any headway
with Indian girls. The war was in Vietnam
Gen Z and Millennials have changed the and girls in India only wanted to marry.
definition of sex. Open your appstore on Even today, the vast majority of men and
your smartphone and you will find the women in India can have sex only after
following Apps. Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, marriage.
Happn, Hinge, TrulyMadly, Woo, Badoo, So where do we go from here? What
POF (Plenty of Fish). I don’t know if happens to love and marriage, is it
these apps are legal, but they are used by redundant? Since, sex is available at a click
millions of people and are there for every without any commitment and it could be
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to see. a new experience each time. Can young
The apps present an opportunity people fall in love and can they make love
for exploration as well as pursuing last? The young today face a world where
compatibility and deeper connection. The all the rules are new and options plenty.
conversation about sex is more open and Technology has squeezed itself into every
people are seeing it more expansively. This aspect of our lives. Will this change the
is how it works - concept of marriage? May be marriage will
Step 1 – Download dating app of your happen with a deeper sense of commitment
choice and understanding. On the other hand,
Step 2 – Create your profile and upload a there is a sense that everything is possible
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