Reporter Mackenzie Yaddaw sat down with five LGBTQIA+ identifying individuals — Alex, Emily, Natalia, Kayla and Floral — to discuss their journeys when navigating hook-up and dating culture during their collegiate careers.

Ever wonder what the guy on Tinder’s real intentions are but are too afraid to ask? The Statesman did the work so you don’t have to. We matched with 100 guys on Tinder. Here’s what we found. 

Simon Leviev's Ponzi scheme, in which he pretended to be the son of a Russian-Israeli diamond mogul on the dating app Tinder, is exposed in "The Tinder Swindler."

#OPINION: It’s common knowledge that ghosting is common, especially in the gay dating world. However, it shouldn’t be normalized anymore. 

#OPINION: Thanks to more relaxed attitudes toward sex and sexuality, "hook-up culture" - casual sex without emotional intimacy - has become more common among teens and young adults.

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is planning to offer an online dating service. Please don’t.

Humans are not objects. We have feelings and emotions. Whether male or female, we deserve to be approached in a proper and respectful way if someone is romantically interested in us.

Am I a victim of sexual harassment? I don’t like to think so, but I do feel taken advantage of. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was young and immature. I still am, but I’m learning.

For many, Tinder is a typical millennial dating app. But for two people who found a connection with each other on the app, it became much more than that.

The new app “Backup Plan” by the Breakup Shop, designed by the Keast brothers, creates a legally binding agreement for two people to marry each other by a certain time.

One of the wonderful things about your body is that it is yours. No one knows it better than you do and no one can take that away from you.

We want that raise, we want that title and we want to know that we can stand on our two feet before we jump into some sort balancing act with another person.