Media

Media

“Why do we write? A chorus erupts. Because we cannot simply live.”
Patti Smith
Devotion (2017:93)

I am always looking for opportunities to collaborate with and contribute to on- and offline publications that reflect my vision for a more equitable and meaningful world. In the spirit of this, I am excited to announce my newest initiatives:

 

Latest Online Publications and Features

02.19.2026

Message from her match was 'like a robot had sent it.' How AI is changing dating apps




02.19.2026

Is this man for real? The perils of trying to detect AI use while online dating




03.15.2026

The Pink Pill : New documentary exposes the long battle to bring Addyi — the first libido drug for women — to market




02.19.2026

Message from her match was 'like a robot had sent it.' How AI is changing dating apps




02.19.2026

Is this man for real? The perils of trying to detect AI use while online dating




02.14.2026

«On regardait le même gâteau. Il m’a demandé: sucré ou salé?» Ou quand le réel éclipse les applis de rencontre




02.13.2026

Dating in 2026: What's Changed and What Hasn't





02.12.2026

Is A Gay Hockey Romance Good For Sport?





02.09.2026

Co-existing with kangaroos





02.01.2026

‘I couldn’t say goodbye’: A decade without Shelley Desrochers



01.08.2026

Why doesn’t Gen Z get laid?





12.23.2025

Where Research Meets Memoir, an Interview with Treena Orchard




11.27.2025

Online dating lacks real connection: anthropologist





11.27.2025

Treena Orchard - Lecture Series '25 - Vulnerbro: Documenting the Tender Edges of Masculinity




11.26.2025

Where Research Meets Memoir, an Interview with Treena Orchard




11.27.2025

Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps




11.06.2025

A guide to thriving in the digital age over 50




11.24.2025

How ‘relationship anarchy’ is changing the nature of connection for millennials and Gen Z





11.10.2025

Sex work on trial: What the recently dismissed Constitutional challenge means





10.07.2025

This elite matchmaker charges clients up to $100,000. Now, they’re building an AI




08.13.2025

Take It From a Woman: Why Doesn’t Any Straight Man Own a Bottle of Lube?




07.24.2025

Hockey Canada sex assault verdict: Sports culture should have also been on trial





07.20.2025

Why in-person dating is making a comeback — and why Gen Z is struggling with it





07.03.2025

'Some loved it and some tore it apart': How the erotic novel All Fours captured the zeitgeist – and divided readers




07.02.2025

Is the romance with dating apps over? Big cuts at Bumble, Match raise questions





07.01.2025

Sticky, Sexy, Sad | The Treena Orchard Interview






05.01.2025

Looking For Love? Culture-Specific Dating Apps Can Help





04.14.2025

What's Up London






03.20.2025

Is the "White Lotus" Monologue "Kinda Magical," or Orientalism?





02.14.2025

Dating ecology 101: ‘Swipe with your eyes open’





02.13.2025

There's plenty of relationship advice on social media. Here's why you shouldn't always take it to heart




02.11.2025

YMCA recognizes remarkable women in London





02.2025

YMCA Women of Excellence






02.10.2025

AI dating is about data, not love: How to resist the tech takeover of romance





01.24.2025

My Bleached Brows Are Hot — But Why Don’t My Hinge Matches Agree?





01.22.2025

The power of kink: An anthropologist reviews ‘Babygirl’





11.21.2024

Treena Orchard Sticky Sexy Sad On My Magical Midlife





11.17.2024

The Realities of On-Line Dating; Love at First Swipe with Dr. Treena Orchard




11.07.2024

Why are young men attracted to older women? It's not what you think





10.29.2024

Understanding the emotional effects of ghosting in modern dating




10.11.2024

Author Interview with Treena Orchard




09.30.2024

Swipe Culture & Sex Tech with Dr. Treena Orchard




09.05.2024

The emotional toll of dating apps and why they’re no longer about finding love – podcast



09.05.2024

The emotional toll of dating apps and why they're no longer about finding love



08.01.2024

Treena Orchard On 'Sticky, Sexy, Sad' | The Social




07.31.2024

Age-gap relationships between Millennial women and Gen Z men are on the rise



07.23.2024

Online Dating is Out. Real-Life Romance is In.




07.13.2024

Frustrated with dating apps? These experts have tips for a better swiping experience



07.11.2024

Why people are breaking up with dating apps




07.09.2024

Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps




07.08.2024

Treena Orchard





06.12.2024

I Matched with 2371 Men, But Only Went On 10 Dates




06.05.2024

Single people are fed up with dating apps and returning to the real world to meet their match



05.30.2024

Single people are fed up with dating apps and returning to the real world to meet their match



05.2024

This book highlights the (many) real concerns about dating apps




05.18.2024

How online apps have transformed datingesponsible Online Dating



05.15.2024

Swipe right or left? How dating apps are impacting modern masculinity



05.05.2024

'Mini-slot machines': Inside a London woman's journey into dating apps



04.2024

Meet Treena Orchard, the sex-positive author of ‘Sticky, Sexy, Sad’, a dating apps memoir



02.27.2024

Dr. Treena Orchard of Western University On How To Navigate Our Complicated Modern World To Find Love


02.14.2024

You’re still hot. They just have whiskey dick.



01.27.2024

Swipe Right, Stay Safe: A Guide to Responsible Online Dating



01.26.2024

Canadian woman made $16K a month on OnlyFans while getting sober


11.16.2023

America's Relationship Revolution: Women in midlife and beyond are a thing. Here’s why.




11.06.2023

Creating Safe Spaces with Dr. Treena Orchard





11.01.2023

Stark Conversation with Dr. Treena Orchard- The Subjectivity of Safe





10.27.2023

Cat Person, 'charity sex' and why women sleep with men they don’t want to



10.04.2023

Are We Dating The Same Guy? Online groups toe the line between protecting women and defaming men


09.21.2023

The Sexy Times: Professor Treena Orchard—anthropologist, author and activist—talks digital dating.


09.01.2023

Cunnilingus





08.27.2023

SEX FILES: What is breadcrumbing? Experts speak out



08.21.2023

How safe and successful are dating apps in 2023?




08.18.2023

Defamation case underscores how reality is hard to discern in online dating, says anthropologist


08.17.2023

New book highlights the dark side of dating apps




06.13.2023

A Conversation with Dr. Wednesday Martin




04.15.2023

As a recently single Toronto millennial, I dreaded finding love online. So I went speed dating.


03.30.2023

The 21 best second date ideas, according to relationship experts



02.26.2023

‘It’s not you, it’s the apps’: Western prof talks nuances digital dating



02.24.2023

Sexual Wellness Is Self-care: What Experts Want You to Know About It





02.20.2023

PAGET: The month of love brings on a plethora of pleasure





02.14.2023

Dr. Treena Orchard discusses self-love and sexual wellness on The Morning Zoom with Sam & Jane




02.14.2023

Hour 3 – Valentine’s Day Edition: The Draft | Sex Wellness for Women | Wright or Wrong


02.03.2023

The Social – How Sexual Wellness Boosts our Health


01.26.2023

We’re All Strangers Until We Meet



01.22.2023

8 Real Stories From People Who Found Love Online After 40





12.22.2022

How to Take a Good Dick Pic, According to Experts





12.07.2022

5 Ways to Show Appreciation for Your Partner During the Holiday Season





11.03.2022

7 Ways to Show Gratitude for Your Partner This Thanksgiving




11.24.2022

How Much Should You Tip Your Tattoo Artist? We’ve Got Answers For Ya



11.21.2022

Letter to the Editor: Do labour negotiations have to be so painful?




11.2022

How to Be Happy and Enjoy Being Single (According to 9 Experts)


10.20.2022

2022 Best Female Scientists Ranking Highlights the Work of 1000 Spectacular Women


02.10.2022

Bumble to Tinder, how the world sees powerful women leading dating apps


10.17.2022

Powerful women heading up dating apps are framed as young and sexy



09.04.2022

When did tracking a woman’s ‘body count’ become such a thing?



09.02.2022

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture



08.03.2022

Exploring the links between slang and sexual and gender-based violence among university students in a Canadian city


08.04.2022

Older women and younger men, you say?




02.10.2022

“We Cause a Ruckus”: Exploring How Indigenous Youth Navigate the Challenges of Community Engagement and Leadership


07.28.2022

Western University reports offer steps to address sexual violence




06.27.2022

Walking in each other’s shoes





06.26.2022

Coping with Ghosting





05.28.2022

Gender, Sex and Tech





01.30.2022

Is low libido another symptom of the pandemic?




02.10.2022

Exploring the impacts of dating apps on mental health among adults




12.21.2021

Sex & the City Reboot is more groan than groove, and misses the mark



11.27.2021

Deconstructing Social Constructs: Their Origins, Their Impact & Their Solutions below.


09.05.2021

Chill Broad, Bitch Boi; Twink: What Sexual Slang Reveals About Gen Z'ers



10.21.2021

Sex Files: The allure of the older woman




2021

How To Make Your College More Equitable, Diverse, And Inclusive




11.22.2021

Leigh Cowart: Hurts So Good





04.24.2021

Community conversations about rape culture on university campuses




04.22.2021

Western students decry toxic party culture following OWeek sexual assault allegations



04.09.2021

Check out one – or all – of my conversations about how this university tradition is creating a breeding ground for dangerous behaviours and gender-based violence

09.19.2021

Western University Should Cancel Frosh Week




09.06.2021

SEX FILES: Not app-gain! The continuous disappointments of app-dating



09.02.2021

From Hot Girl To Gone Girl: Five Dating Takeaways From Summer 2021



04.24.2021

Five Tips to Taming the Covid Relationship Rollercoaster



04.22.2021

Sex and intimacy coaching can help strengthen connections between people during the COVID-19 pandemic

04.09.2021

Marketing or Reality: Is Bumble a Feminist App?



03.31.2021

Listen up to “Sex Work in the City“ with the fabulous podcast team at Cheating On Fear



02.03.2021

What’s on the agenda for today? Digital Gender Dynamics via Zoom




01.27.2021

Tune into & turn up my podcast with Cheating on Fear




12.29.2020

Money, Agency, and Self-Care among Cisgender and Trans People in Sex Work




2020

Interview: The gender dynamics that play out on Zoom





12.01.2020

On Zoom, men don’t like feeling watched & judged, but women are used to it




11.13.2020

Revisiting the fears of Covid-19: What was life like six months ago?




10.29.2020

Why Am I Obsessed with Big Little Lies?




10.2020

Equity Champion: Treena Orchard





10.23.2020

Learn about the “Quaranfling”






10.08.2020

7 Reasons Dating Younger Men is a Smart Choice





09.17.2020

Flushing My Stresses Away: Bathrooms as Spaces of Self-Recovery & Solace During Covid




2020

Women Who Roar Instagram Feature



02.10.2020

Valentine’s Day: Gen Z avoids committed relationships, prefers casual hookups


09.30.2019

Bumble article comments indicate the rise of a far-right feminist-backlash


02.11.2020

Gen Z Hookup Culture




08.15.2019

Amour et désir sur internet: les hommes ne sont pas prêts à se faire draguer par les femmes!


07.28.2019

Love, lust and digital dating: Men on the Bumble dating app aren’t ready for the Queen bee


06.04.2019

Sitting with Sallie guest Treena Orchard


04.29.2019

'Sticky, sexy, sad': Western researcher shares dating app experience


03.08.2019

LFP LONGFORM: Is publicly naming sex buyers wise or reckless?




02.16.2019

Myth: Girls don't masturbate





05.23.2018

What it's like to be a sex worker on Valentine's Day




11.04.2016

Exploring the STI testing stigma





Dr. Treena Orchard

London, Ontario
Canada


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