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How does orientation affect the dating app experience?

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Rachel Thompson's second book, The Love Fix , is out now via Square Peg .

It's a deeper dive than ever into dating app fatigue, and a truly hopeful means to understand how we can reconnect with authenticity and intimacy in a world increasingly disengaged and automated.

We've got an excerpt on this complex, undeniably prevalent topic for you below.

WLW women have absorbed heteronormative dating scripts to date men and women.

They are often hypervigilant about who they can hit on and when.

They're also aware that the response they get might be more than a simple rejection.

"We are seen as something for men’s pleasure only, and not our own entity," says Lucy .

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