"The Mating Rituals of the 21st Century Male..."(draft)

-A scathing historical review of relationship practices, courting, and mate selection throughout history and digital history in order to understand where we currently are as a society from a psychological perspective with an emphasis on this next digital generations predilection towards static imagery and speed of light communication.

"Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it so let's do it..."

~Ella Fitzgerald

-Comical--juxtaposition between other species...

--"Adapations of Touch..." The predicted change in human behavior with consideration to the advancements in technology and their long-term impact on how we... /buttsqueeze

--digital peacocking

--ant-dipping and digital courting practices...

--hive-mind mentality

-Why we like people, how we like people, and when we like people instead of "I"

-Sexualization--Freudian or Eriksonian Theory???

--Oh, wait they didn't have computers...

***lacuna-alert

-If there's adults in the pool do we have to put our clothes back on...

--Early to late-stage childhood developmental questions...

-social media dealbreakers #smdb

--digital prenump

-Snap judgement reinforcement/smash or pass society...

-The psychology of attraction in this new shift to digital communications...

--Correlation? Speed of communication in comparison to length of relationships...

--ASMR

---He stopped reading at I like big butts and I cannot lie...

-Social Darwinism

--Social mores...

-Are intellectuals getting squeezed out...

-preferences... computation or copulation?? hmm... not seeming like different species, yet...

-The Matching Algorithm...

--Bias reinforcement...

-Growth to some is death to others...

--The perversion of man-kinds natural progression...

--Transhumanism compared to man-kind's natural evolutionary path...

-Competition...

-bro code?

-subterfuge

-smearing, character assassination

-relationship anxiety

-self-conscious

-how often do you check your partner's profile...

-posting do's and don'ts

-Don't take on more than you can handle...

-knowing that there are other more readily available mates 24/7 to scroll through, chat with, and ignore each other for especially when said partner is not quite the ideal... attention...

-Speaking of ideal...

-maturity vs. immaturity

-Parental discretion...

--cultural concepts as well as familial guidelines...

-K-12 sex education updates...

-private vs. public relationship...

-Compromising

-Being comfortable airing out relationship troubles...

-Knowing what your partner is comfortable with and feeling comfortable enough to let them know you're uncomfortable...

"Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all..."

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

-The Fallout...

The Digital Grieving Process...

-What happens when it doesn't end well?

-mutual friends?

-pictures?

-Bystander sympathy

-ulterior motives

-vindictive/vengeful/toxicity and digital immaturity...

-Aaron X.