Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 4 of Mads World: The Cost of Loving, 2023 Dating Trends with Alix Fox!

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This week, I am joined by Alix Fox: multi award-winning writer & broadcaster with over 16 years’ experience specialising in sex and relationships. Alix has been a script consultant on hit Netflix series Sex Education since its inception, she’s the resident ‘Foxhole Shagony Aunt’ on The Modern Mann podcast, and has previously presented on BBC Radio 1’s Unexpected Fluids, Audible’s KINK!, Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and The Guardian’s Close Encounters. Named Best Sexual Wellbeing Ambassador 2020 in the ETO Awards, she’s currently writing her first book, The Missing Kink.

Starting out as an editor on Bizarre magazine, her writing can be found everywhere from Vogue to Time Out to Stylist to Fabulous. Alix is a proud face of HIV Testing Week, and regularly collaborates with charities including Brook and Bloody Good Period.

In this episode, we chat all about the results of Plenty of Fish’s annual dating survey from a poll of 1,000 UK singles. Whether it’s economic, cultural, political or nonsensical TikTok trends, many different factors influence the way we meet, connect and date each other. As a result, it’s become an annual tradition for OG dating app, Plenty of Fish, to analyse the trends that look set to influence the dating landscape in the year ahead, & give them snappy names to make them easier to constructively discuss & dissect.

Up next, we chat about the key trends identified, revealing the freshest dating behaviours and buzzwords you’ll be navigating into 2023 and beyond.

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