Something to read on this? And I do mean specifically how services such as Tinder and Ashley Madison have impacted the way people interact with each other, in regards to love, dating, sex and relationships. I find it weird that whenever posters talk about sex and relationships, they do mention Tinder and the likes, yet never really touch upon the absurdity of a potentially paid service providing you a potential mate. Or whenever there's talk of what should your Tinder profile look like, people tell each other to "advertise" themselves. It's plastic, fake, corporate speech. There's no romanticism anywhere, it's seen as outdated. It's not productive enough, romanticism doesn't get you the end result quickly enough. So there is now a middle man, providing a clean, sleek, plastic substitute for a previously organic service of exchange between individuals. Of course, this is a simplification. How much of this is due to technology and sexual liberation? When talked about, sexual liberation is, at least in my eyes, always separated from the corporate element. As if it is/was organic, it happened because it was the right thing to happen, ad hoc reasoning. Yet when confronted with the fact that this has been now appropriated by companies, with only profit margins in mind, people say "we must just get rid of X and it'll work itself out". As if these things are separatable entities. Capitalism is the reason why sexual liberation could happen as much as it is the reason services such as Tinder came to be (also you have shit like Ashley Madison, but that's probably another topic).
tl;dr I'm a confused retard and want to read about corporatism/capitalism taking over relationships and sex. Preferably during 21st century.
Currently the most comprehensive writing I've seen (although it lacks a certain amount of depth and doesn't try very hard to formulate a conclusion) is this very long Atlantic article:
The phenomenon hasn't quite advanced enough yet to the point where people write books directly addressing it; the political climate also isn't quite right yet.
Joshua Richardson
Whatever by Houellebecq is about this however it was written before the internet got involved. Overall it is due to the total commodification of human beings, their material culture and their relationships. In order to stop it you would probably have to end capitalism. Good luck with that.
Connor Barnes
Interesting piece, real downer though. tfw no gf seems to be more than a meme for autistic Yea Forums posters after all.
