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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

396 - The Most Successful Online Dating Practices (with OkCupid's Michael Kaye)

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today we're joined by Michael Kaye, head of communications at OKCupid! We're thrilled to have Michael join us to discuss online dating, how it has changed over the years and over the course of the pandemic, give some specific online dating advice and insight about dating trends, and answer some questions from our listeners about non-monogamous dating on OkCupid. Find more of Michael at @MichaelKayePR and @OkCupid on Instagram and Twitter respectively.OKCupid has also been generous enough to offer free premier subscriptions to Multiamory listeners! Listen to the end of the episode to find out how to get access to your free premier membership! Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.com/join. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community. Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

With people who are non monogamous, one of the trends that we've been seeing over the last couple of years is non monogamy is definitely in.

0:13.4

A majority of our daters still do seek monogamous relationships,

0:17.2

but in 2021, users seeking non-monogamous relationships

0:22.2

increased 7% and mentions of non-monogamy and

0:26.4

Thruple in users profiles went up 21%. Now yes that does sound like a low, but it's not really when you're

0:34.9

considering that there are millions and millions of people on this app and

0:38.3

when we looked at our questions like we've talked about our questions before but we are our in-app questions have been

0:45.0

answered millions and millions of times and one of our questions that I was

0:49.1

looking at recently was would you consider having an open relationship.

0:54.3

And over the years, 30% of almost 30 million daters

0:58.9

on our app said they would consider having

1:00.9

an open relationship.

1:02.0

But going back to the data, if we break that down by year,

1:06.2

this actually jumped from 29% of people in 2018

1:10.4

saying they'd be into non-monogamy to 30% of people in 2019 and 2020 and then up to

1:17.5

34% in 2021 and 2022.

1:21.3

Welcome to the Multiammery Podcast.

1:25.0

I'm Jace.

1:26.0

I'm Emily.

1:27.0

And I'm Dedicur.

1:28.0

We believe in looking to the future of relationships, not maintaining the status quo of the past.

1:33.0

So whether you're monogamous,

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