Emily Witt is an American investigative journalist based in

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with a particular focus on modern dating from the feminine perspective.

Life

Witt is a graduate of

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and the

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. She also graduated from Columbia's graduate school of investigative journalism. While in Mozambique on a Fulbright scholarship, she reported on Mozambican cinema for U.N. news agencies including '' IRIN'' and '' PlusNews''. She wrote for numerous publications and moved to New York City. Witt is a staff writer for ''

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,'' and has written for numerous publications including ''

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'', and '' Miami New Times''. Her writing has been described as a blend of "personal writing with social analysis." Her book ''Future Sex'' explores how women see the dating world in the 21st century; ''

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'' described her book as "an illuminating, hilarious account of sex and dating in the digital age, when hook-up culture and technology have vastly altered the romantic landscape."August 2016, Publishers' Weekly
Future Sex (book review)
Retrieved August 30, 2016, ... At age thirty, she found herself "single and heartbroken" and she resolved to explore why that was the case. Her focus shifted to dating and technology and sexuality; she traveled to

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, dated often, and wrote about her encounters. She profiled the dating app

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. Witt noted that many

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novels rarely addressed the issue of sexuality from a feminine perspective. In ''

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'' in 2013, she noted that, in many classic novels, the subject of female sexuality was missing or subdued, in addition to having female characters being defined simply in opposition to dynamic male characters; when she turned to books written by men, she was turned off.

Bibliography

Books

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Essays and reporting

* * Online version is titled "Is 2019 the year of the consenticorn?". *
The Last Rave
. ''The New Yorker.'' Volume C, No. 20, July 8 & 15, 2024.

Book reviews

References

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