This is how you’ll be dating in 2025, from nano-ships to ‘active dates’
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Most singles can agree that 2024 wasn’t a great year for dating – could the next 12 months be any better? Olivia Petter has dug into the trends that will soon define your love life. Nobody is in need of better PR right now than dating. Ask the single people you know how their love lives are looking and you’ll soon see why. Yes, ghosting is still a thing, and no, dating apps haven’t made things any easier.
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But in 2024, the problems went beyond that. The “boysober” trend saw straight women on social media swearing off dating altogether. This was quickly followed by the adoption of the South Korean 4B movement, which posits an all-out rejection of men and heterosexual relationships in the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election.
Meanwhile, men shared their worst dating stories from the year in a viral thread on Reddit, with many lamenting “constant rejection” while others decried dating as “transactional” on the whole. With this in mind, one can only hope that 2025 will bring a better and brighter future for single people everywhere. Frankly, the bar is pretty low, so it shouldn’t be too difficult. We’ve spoken to a range of dating experts and app brands to identify what single people can expect from the year ahead; read on and remember to swipe right at your own risk.
Celibacy. This might sound counterintuitive, but expect to see a lot more people abstaining from sex in the new year. According to data from Feeld, the sex-positive app that allows users to state their different desires on their profiles, “celibacy” was the fastest-growing desire in London, New York and Los Angeles.
