The Study of Dating and Mating

The media's handling of sex is often so superficial and silly—"Men would rather play videogames than have sex"—that it's refreshing to get actual in-depth reporting about the subject. In their Webby-award-winning project The Science of Sex, journalists Anne Machalinski, Christie Nicholson, and Aili McConnon spent months delving into how science and technology are changing the way we understand sex and attraction in the modern era.