This extensive study of dating sites turns our view of love, sex, the couple, separation, etc on its head.
It brings to light profound transformations in sexuality which are far from those brandished by the propagandists of moral panic or the superficial denunciations of a capitalism which is turning the intimate spheres of human activity into a marketable commodity.
Above all, this relationship model is creating a fundamental change: insularity. Online meetings take place outside of, and often without the knowledge of social circles, family and friends, thus allowing a form of privatization of one’s personal life and encounters which have never been seen before in the history of humanity and which are transforming its shape and codes.
Marie Bergström is a sociologist and associate professor at Sciences-Po Paris. Les Nouvelles lois de l’amour is her first book.