What’s interesting to me is how the young women quoted in this story reduce themselves to sexual commodities.

No wonder dating is miserable for them.

They offer the men they seek to date nothing but a sexual transaction, as in “So it worked out for him.”

She means, “I had sex with him, which was all I could offer.” She refuses to text him because… well, she’s probably not very good company, what with dating being so wretched and all.

She is not able to offer him scintillating conversation, emotional connection, companionship, or creativity. Or she would text.

All she’s offering is sex. At a price, which is evidently negotiated through digital “courtship rituals.”

The author would do her interview subjects a favor by explaining to them that the whole purpose of dating is to have fun.

They seem to be distracted from that purpose by something else.