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Reflections on Hookup Culture
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Reflections on Hookup Culture

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May 20, 2022
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This essay appears in Issue 1 of the Mars Review of Books. Visit the MRB store here.


When people ask me about my romantic life before my marriage, I often tell them I was a femcel.

Hindsight being what it is, I can say now that that wasn’t quite true—I wasn’t a femcel. I just didn’t feel wanted.

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Internet ethnographer. I want to talk to you if you grew up with unrestricted access to the Internet. @default_friend of X (formerly Twitter). Columnist at Tablet & The Dispatch. Find me regularly in UnHerd, The Spectator, and here, on Substack.
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