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 wh ...