Dating Is Supposed to Be Messy... and Fun with Myisha Battle

What happens when love comes with upgrades, your best matches are behind a paywall, and a chatbot that never disagrees with you starts to feel like the safer option?Myisha Battle is a certified clinical sexologist, dating coach, and author of This Is Supposed to Be Fun and Sexual Pleasure for Dummies. Based in San Francisco — the tech capital of the world — she has a front-row seat to what technology is doing to intimacy. Her expertise has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Magazine's The Cut, Oprah Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle.In this episode, Myisha and I talk about why Gen Z is rejecting dating apps, our increasing skills deficit in face-to-face connection, why our tolerance for the messiness of human interaction is at an all-time low, the rise of AI chatbots as romantic partners, and what she's seeing on the ground — from singles mixers in Oakland to clients learning to meet people "in the wild" again.Your analog assignment this week: Put your phone away and be present in your own life. Take the earbuds out, look around you, make eye contact.Links to Myisha Battle's website and books: myishabattle.comThis Is Supposed to Be Fun: How to Find Joy in DatingSexual Pleasure for Dummies