All right, Dr. Orion Teraban, welcome to The Man Talk Show. How you doing?

I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, Connor.

Yeah, man. You have been requested by many of our listeners and checked out some of your

content over the last little while and really love what you're

doing. And I think we're going to have fun today. So maybe let's just start with the broad

question. What in the hell is happening in the modern dating and relational space? Is it really as

much of a mess as people say? And if so, what do you think is contributing to that?

Oh, yeah, it's pretty much a shit show. It's probably not as bad as the social media influencers

would have you believe, but it is pretty bad. And it does seem to be deteriorating with each passing

year. I do think these things generally run on swings.

Like I don't think everything is just going to completely fall apart,

and men and women just are going to cease having relationships with one another.

I think the pendulum will just eventually start to swing in one direction or the other

once it starts to lose momentum.

But I don't think that we are

coming out of the swing towards one side. I don't know if it's the left or the right. It's

hard to talk about that because it gets mixed up with politics. But I think that things are

probably going to get worse for a little bit before they get better. And I think a lot of things are contributing to that, but probably what is

accelerating the deterioration these days is the advent of certain technologies. The dating

apps have been shown really not to do what they were designed to do in many cases.

And I think with the advent of AI agents and other technologies that are coming in the pipeline,

we're going to see some bigger challenges in the sexual marketplace.

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