We Need a Sexual Nonproliferation Pact

For nearly 50 years, Americans lived in a stand-off with Soviet Russia called “Mutually Assured Destruction” or MAD: When the bombs started flying, we all knew that neither we nor the Soviets would come out alive. While we’re no longer forced into that state of hateful paranoia, it seems we’ve found new ways to inflict it on ourselves. Modern online dating has effectively become an arms race between the sexes, and the stakes are just as existential.