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This Is Your Brain on Sex

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is the Dinner Date Coming Back?

Dating is not what it used to be. You don't invite the girl to a movie and dinner, you go out with a group of friends then somehow people are coupled. We're now building what margaret mead called taboos instead of rules. 60 % of people on a date find it extremely rude if their partner pulls outon and does a text message or uses their phone in any way. Divorce has been aound a good four million years. Serial boding is probably basic to the human animal partnerships. But what really unusual for me is the loss of local community. I'm crista tippet, and this is on being today with anthropologist of love and

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