By justina colmena ~biz in vice —

Pimps and matchmakers are losing business

They were selling power. Absolute raw power to force marriages on unwilling partners or prohibit certain people from marrying at all.

All the popular dating apps were hooked up at the local churches and local police stations in the area through Flock cameras and sex offender registries.

Dating apps getting desperate after ‘huge exodus’ of users deciding swiping won’t find them true love
Dating apps are desperately attempting to pivot amidst public backlash against their very business premise.
New York PostRikki Schlott

Fee-for-service and sex-for-money are turning out to be very poor business models.

I’ve lived in Las Vegas for almost 20 years. Tourists should stop wasting money on these 5 things.
As a local living in Las Vegas, Nevada, I know the city gets expensive. Here are ways to save money, plus things I think visitors waste money on.
YahooJena Brown
Dating Apps Are Dying
Abundance in online dating makes it harder to become curious about a person, tolerate uncertainty, or feel satisfied with our choice, writes Meehika Barua.
TimeMeehika Barua

Sometimes, literally, dying. Serial killers and body counts were showing up on dating apps.

Are you stuck in the dating app burnout cycle?
Download, burnout, delete, repeat. Science says dating app users follow a predictable and dangerous pattern. These are the signs you’re falling for it – and how to escape.
BBCThomas Germain

Not anything good to get burned out on. The Bible says they're caught in bed together.

[1 Cor. 5:9] I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
[7:9] But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

I am neither a pimp nor a preacher. I can't quote the Bible with much grace.

Ukrainian Model Veronika Vovk Claims Her Good Looks Make Dating Difficult, Men Don’t See Her ‘as a Person’
A stunning model from Ukraine claims she finds it hard to meet her Mr. Right because of her looks and occupation. Speaking with The U.S. Sun on October 2, 21-year-old Veronika Vovk admitted that datin…
Yahoo EntertainmentVanessa Bermudez

Ukraine has flooded the Western world with mail-order brides as if the Ukrainian men to take care of them don't exist at all.

“I’m looking forward to having a relationship with a good guy who’s attentive, kind, independent and takes me on fun dates. ¶Sadly my experience has been that this kind of bloke is too shy to shoot their shot and ask me out, so I’ve yet to find my dream man. ¶I don’t use dating apps, I much rather prefer to meet people in person organically.”

Guys too shy to shoot their shot in war-torn Ukraine? Really! How does she rate fleeing to Belgium as an au pair beauty model while her male compatriots are being hunted down in their home country for dodging the draft?