Dating and Relationships

There’s a cultural stigma in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that older, unmarried men are misfits or something’s wrong with them. A new mission change could signal to other members that single men belong.

“Every time something like this comes out, it empowers people who want to be hateful. I don’t think it makes new hateful people, but it empowers people who already are,” said queer BYU senior Rachel Billings.

The desire to find love does not stop as people age. In fact, when people fall in love later in life, neuroimaging shows the same parts of the brain lighting up as it does in younger people.

Brigham Young University researchers found that sexual assault perpetrators who meet their victims on a dating app are more likely to be violent, and the victims have high levels of mental illness.