The popularity of online dating is growing in France, but it still carries associations of 1990s-era ‘trash dating’, and there are noteworthy differences in how men and women use these platforms. What are French women looking for? Fun, empowerment, and opportunities to meet offline.
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Nick Boston is a professor of sociology and communication at Lehman College. He studies labour and organisation, media, and trans-national migration. He is currently writing a book about his research on online dating.
Kenza Pace is a licensed psychologist and relationship coach who practices in Strasbourg, France. She created and runs the Happy Love program for women.
Janine Mossuz-Lavau is a political scientist and sociologist and a research director at the CNRS and Sciences Po. She is the author of a number of works on gender and sexuality, including most recently Sex Life in France (La vie sexuelle en France, Editions de la Martinière, 2018).
Maya Kaiser is a copywriter and researcher with a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology. She writes about identity, cross-cultural marketing, and internet context collapse, and can be found tweeting @MayaKaiserMILK.
