Boys Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part IV: Special Valentine’s Edition
This morning we’ve had the latest installment of Girls Gone Wild, so for the sake of equality of the (two) sexes I cannot but now present some eye candy for …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XIII: Special Valentine’s Edition
You have all been very good regular readers of TDC recently, absorbing a lot of outrage, ridicule and cynicism emanating from these pages under the guise of impassioned political and …
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Now do Hitler
If it was the Soviet Russia, everyone would have needed to swipe right in order to be left: It’s amazing what kind of behaviour hot people can get away with on …
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40 times unlucky
I honestly don’t know how these things become news stories, even for the tabloids: A student who’s been on 40 “atrocious” dates in nine months has created a brilliant Tinder …
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I was a female Tinderer
Yesterday, a story caught my eye, which proved that people nowadays are so lazy, they will outsource just about anything to others – including their Tinder experience: Holly Bartter has …
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Boys Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part III
As I said yesterday, here at The Daily Chrenk we are the equal opportunity mockers and judgers. It has been a while between the drinks – a year and a …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XII
OK, OK, OK… This is a serious politics, culture and news blog; all killer no filler; no clickbait, listicles or celebrity gossip. On the other hand, those of you who …
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Fifty Shades of Red
Normally socialism buggers you through high taxes, over-regulation and social control. A growing wave of sex-positive feminists are working to usher in what they describe as a “pleasure revolution” in which …
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No sex, please, we’re Millennials
Social and religious conservatives rejoice: teenagers and young people today are having far less sex than a generation ago; teenage pregnancy rates are down to only a third of what …
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You’re only as old as the woman you feel – or want to feel
Gender and sexuality being fluid, and increasingly colour and ethnicity too, why not age? When you abandon any objective standards – because they reflect the power structures in the society …
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“What if women went on a sex strike before the midterms?”
…and no one noticed. After the “Grab them by the ballot” nude photo shoot by “a diverse group of 10 Vermont women”, today, with only a few days to go …
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Swipe left, swipe right, swipe it all about
Politics ruins everything, part 578. As if there weren’t enough fake profiles on dating apps, whether bots trying to entice the unwary to other sites or sad individuals trying to …
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I swiped on a sexbot
Well, not really. If I did, it would have made for a fascinating blog post, and I, no doubt, would have had a more enthralling online conversation than many one …
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Make Dating Great Again
Tired of being constantly dumped by your dates after they discover you are an ugly right-winger? Looking for a soulmate you can build a wall and drain a swamp with? …
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Hot hearts smart?
The difficulties of illustrating new research become apparent in this News.com.au story “Physically attractive women ‘more likely’ to go the distance with intelligent men”: Nerdy guys are in luck, not …
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Aussie breasts spoil German Octoberfest
Is it still cultural appropriation when the Anglos do it to the Krauts? Oktoberfest, the weekslong German celebration dating back to the 1800s is known for beer, traditional Bavarian food …
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Are there Reds in your bed?
Oh, not to be young and Russian in Washington DC, “Politico” reports: Nothing prepared the young Russians of Washington for the wintry blast of social isolation and suspicion that followed …
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Are you a sexual racist?
Everything is racism nowadays, so you won’t be surprised to discover that your sexual preferences and physical attractions can be bigoted too: One evening while browsing the wildly popular gay …
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Are sexy selfies a sign of gender oppression?
All those bedroom eyes, duckfaces and cleavages splattered all over Instagram, Facebook and other social media (not to mention Tinder), and I bet you have been all wondering whether it’s …
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Finding love in all the wrong places
There has been a large shift in how we find partners: As early as 2010 the internet had overtaken churches, neighbourhoods, classrooms and offices as a setting in which Americans …
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