Numbers define our lives. How many bedrooms we have in our homes. How many times it took us to pass our driving test. How many husbands we’ve had. And so on. One stat apparently means far more than any other, though: how many people we’ve slept with.
What do brown sandals, learning the harmonica and yawning at the dinner table have in common? More than you’d think, actually. According to social media, all of these things are bona fide ‘icks’. Now firmly embedded into the dating dictionary, an ‘ick’ is something minor about a person that instantly turns you off. It is an integral part of modern love, guiding us away from those that aren’t right for us and, hopefully, bringing us closer to those who are.
This article will be released in full online February 12, 2023. There is a paradox, Benjamin Selwyn and Charis Davis write, at the heart of corporate veganism…