Switch to the
mobile version
of this page.
Latest issue
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
RSS
The Daily Reader, Early Warnings, and Food & Drink e-mails
Mobile
Username
View Profile
Edit Profile
Log Out
Log in
Create Account
The Chicago Reader
City Life
News & Politics
Columns
Music
Arts & Culture
Film
Food & Drink
Events
Ads
Browse
How to place classified ads
Browse News & Politics
Features
Maya Dukmasova
Cannabis
The Ben Joravsky Show
Chicago: Queer & Now podcast
Browse Music
Features
Chicagoans of Note
Gossip Wolf
The Listener
Secret History of Chicago Music
Music Reviews
Best Chicago albums of the 2010s
Bull Horn (paid sponsored content)
Early Warnings
Full music listings
Online events
Browse Film
Features
Movie reviews
Index of older long reviews
Small screen
Film archive: short reviews
This week’s movies of note
Movies of note: new reviews
Featured movie theaters
Browse Arts & Culture
Features
Recommended
Theater reviews
Art reviews
Ghost Light (news & notes)
Theater & Performance listings
Dance listings
Art listings
Improv/Sketch listings
Online events
Browse Food & Drink
Features
Mike Sula
Recommended
Reviews
Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content)
Cannabis
Events
Browse City Life
Community
The Mental Health Issue
Public Service Announcement
The Sex Issue
Shop Local
Sightseeing
Street View
Browse Columns
John Greenfield: On Transportation
Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
Ben Joravsky: On Politics
The Ben Joravsky Show
Chicago: Queer & Now podcast
Dan Savage: Savage Love
Opinion
Browse Ads
Classifieds
Matches
How to advertise
Display advertising information
Classified advertising information
Submit a free Matches ad
Browse Events
Online events
Full event listings
Reader events
Recommended today
Recommended this weekend
This week’s movies of note
Early Warnings (Music)
Full music listings
Theater & Performance listings
Dance listings
Improv/Sketch listings
Art listings
Lit & Lectures listings
Food & Drink events
Cannabis events
Parties
Other stuff
Chicago Reader Book Club
TixReader: Buy tickets
Best of Chicago
Online events
Early Warnings
Podcasts
Articles
Issues
Find a paper
Giveaways
Store
Book Club
Donate
Articles
Clear Filters
Filters
Recommended
close
Categories
Year
Features
Best of Chicago
All Best of Chicago
Arts & Culture
Arts & Entertainment
Best of Chicago Ballot
Buy Local
Cannabis
City Life
Credits
Food & Drink
Goods & Services
Introduction
Music & Nightlife
Reasons to love Chicago
Sports & Recreation
News & Politics
All News & Politics
Back Room Deal
Cannabis
Comics Feature
Culture
Essay
Fall Preview
Feature
Media
News
News Analysis
Our Town
Podcasts
Politics
Reader Investigative Reports
Sports
City Life
All City Life
Comics Feature
Community
Feature
Feral Citizen
Holiday Gift Guide
Pets Issue
Public Service Announcement
Shop Local
Sightseeing
Stay at Home
Staycation
Street View
Windy Citizens
Columns & Opinion
All Columns & Opinion
Identity & Culture
On Culture
On Media
On Politics
On Transportation
Opinion
Savage Love
Staff notes
To Be Blunt
Food & Drink
All Food & Drink
Bar Review
Cooking with Cannabis
Fall Preview
Food & Drink Feature
Food, Drink, and Cannabis Issue
Key Ingredient
Restaurant Review
Film
All Film
Fall Preview
Film Issue
Flopcorn
Movie Feature
Movie Review
Small Screen
Arts & Culture
All Arts & Culture
Architecture
Art Feature
Art Review
Book Review
Book Swap
Books and Comics Issue
Books Issue
Calendar
Comedy
Comics
Dance
Fall Preview
Fall Theater and Dance
Fashion
Feature
Festival
Fiction
Flash Fiction
Ghost Light
History
Holiday Events
Lit Feature
New Year's Eve
Performing Arts Feature
Performing Arts Review
Prairie Pothole
Pride 2019
Pride 2020
Spring Theater and Dance
Theater Preview
Theater Review
Travel
Valentine's Day
Winter Theater and Dance
Music
All Music
Chicagoans of Note
Concert Preview
Fall Preview
Gig Poster of the Week
Gossip Wolf
In Rotation
Music Feature
Music Review
Pitchfork
The Block Beat
The Listener
The Secret History of Chicago Music
Reader
All Reader
About
Announcements
Cannabis Conversations (paid sponsored content)
Classified advertising
Digital Editions
Matches
Press releases
Reader events
Reader partners
All Reader partners
AAXLL Supply Co
Aeriz (paid sponsored content)
Camelot Illinois (paid sponsored content)
Chi High Tours (paid sponsored content)
Chicago Votes (paid sponsored content)
Corvelay Media Inc.
David Jay Collins (paid sponsored content)
Early to Bed (paid sponsored content)
Fufluns Foods (paid sponsored content)
Google Fiber Webpass (paid sponsored content)
GTI (paid sponsored content)
Invictus Media Group (paid sponsored content)
Jane Addams Resource Corporation (paid sponsored content)
Lalamove (paid sponsored content)
Leafwell (paid sponsored content)
Lyft (paid sponsored content)
Merlot (paid sponsored content)
Nature’s Care Company (paid sponsored content)
NeuroMedici (paid sponsored content)
Paradise Media (paid sponsored content)
Poetry Foundation (paid sponsored content)
Reader: Planned Parenthood Illinois (paid sponsored content)
Red Bull (paid sponsored content)
SocialWorks (paid sponsored content)
Steve Allen Media (paid sponsored content)
Tequila Herradura (paid sponsored content)
The Chicago FoodCultura Clarion
The Foley Food and Wine Society (paid sponsored content)
The Lytle House (paid sponsored content)
Tulip Tree Gardens (paid sponsored content)
Venteux (paid sponsored content)
Verma Media (paid sponsored content)
Windy City Times
Other Stuff
Blogs
close
Categories
Year
Features
Issue.Year
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
close
Categories
Year
Features
Features
Recommended
Member Picks
Slideshow
Video
Audio
Critics' Picks
Readers' Poll
Image
Sponsored
Gallery - User Submitted
close
Sort by:
Most Recent
Top Viewed
Number of Comments
Relevance
Loading...
14 results
Arts & Culture
,
Feature
Jun 25, 2020
Finding love on Instagram Live
Media broadcasting network COVIDtv takes on dating.
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Feature
,
COVIDtv
,
COVIDtv CONNEX
,
matchmaking
,
love
,
romance
,
Tinder
,
Instagram
,
Julia Arredondo
,
the Honeycomb Network
,
Edra Soto
,
Dan Sullivan
,
Rebecca Soto
,
David Alvarado
,
Maaike van Heijningen
,
Lindsay van Clief
City Life
,
Feature
Apr 10, 2020
Dating at a distance
What it’s like to virtually flirt at the hot new first-date spot: Google Hangouts
By Rachel Hawley
Tags:
Feature
,
Bumble
,
coronavirus
,
COVID-19
,
dating
,
Google Hangouts
,
Hinge
,
Tinder
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Oct 17, 2018
‘Help, I saw my employee at my favorite masturbation event!’
What's a Jacks-club-loving boss to do? Plus: etiquette for Italian hookups and open marriages
By Dan Savage
Tags:
Savage Love
,
Jacks club
,
jacking off
,
JO club
,
group masturbation
,
Alison Green
,
Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work
,
Ask a Manager
,
hookups
,
local entertainment
,
open marriage
,
bisexual
,
Tinder
,
swiping right
,
polyamory
,
hot wife
,
threesome
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 10, 2018
Not everybody in Chicago is down with OKCupid's new DTF ad campaign
The popular dating site claims that its ads have been banned by the CTA, O'Hare, and the Chicago Park District.
By Ryan Smith
Tags:
News
,
Visual Art
,
OKCupid
,
Tinder
,
Bumble
,
online dating
,
DTF
,
Down to Fuck
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 23, 2018
Remembering Chicago Craigslist Personals, the Wild West of Internet dating
Craigslist has preemptively shut down its personals section, the message board that dominated online searches for friendship, love, or sex about a decade ago.
By Ryan Smith
Tags:
Boom!
,
The Internet
,
Craigslist
,
Missed Connections
,
Casual Encounters
,
M4M
,
M4W
,
W4M
,
Internet dating
,
Tinder
,
OKCupid
,
Bumble
,
Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act
,
Communications Decency Act
,
Congress
,
Trump
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Aug 16, 2017
Are there gay men who occasionally crave pussy?
Uncle Dan considers this and other burning questions from his grab bag.
By Dan Savage
Tags:
Savage Love
,
gay men
,
pussy
,
porn
,
strap-on
,
dildo
,
penetrative toys
,
Prozac
,
Donald Trump
,
Trump supporters
,
ChristianMingle
,
Tinder
,
Farmers Only
,
Return of Kings
,
Mike Pence
,
Republican awfulness
,
existential nightmare
,
2018 midterm elections
,
Election 2020
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Dec 28, 2016
How common is it for women to squirt? and other burning questions
More from the live Savage Lovecast Christmas Spectacular
By Dan Savage
Tags:
Savage Love
,
Dan Savage
,
Savage Love
,
Savage Lovecast
,
squirting
,
breast milk
,
topping
,
trans pregnancy
,
anal sex
,
Kinsey Institute
,
Donald Trump
,
Tinder
,
open marriage
Blogs
,
Bleader
Sep 27, 2016
Joe Swanberg’s
Easy
is easily the most north-side-centric Chicago show of all time—but that’s not so terrible
The writer-director’s personal portrait of the city fulfills the contract of auteur television.
By Jake Malooley
Tags:
Arts
,
Film
,
Small Screen
,
Easy
,
Joe Swanberg
,
Woody Allen
,
Dick Wolf
,
north side
,
Chicago Fire
,
Chicago P.D.
,
Chicago Med
,
Chris Ware
,
Paul McGee
,
T.J. Jagodowski
,
Dave Pasquesi
,
Dark Matter Coffee
,
Portlandia
,
Chicago Filmmakers
,
Piece pizza
,
Don't Fret
,
Jesse Diaz
,
Tinder
,
Half Acre
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 25, 2016
A Chicago couple sexes up card games with Weapons of Mass Seduction
Daniel Dranove and Kaitlin Johnson want to create an orgy of conversation with their new sex-themed card game, Weapons of Mass Seduction.
By KT Hawbaker
Tags:
Arts
,
Whoa
,
Dim the Lights
,
Weapons of Mass Seduction
,
Cards Against Humanity
,
Tinder
,
BDSM
,
Uberlube
,
Trader Joes
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Apr 21, 2016
Is vomit play cheating?
An emetophiliac's dilemma. Plus: popping the question, sexual obsession
By Dan Savage
Tags:
Savage Love
,
emetophilia
,
vomit play
,
marriage proposals
,
Tinder
,
sexual obsession
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 21, 2016
A movie about mobsters Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana is in the works and other Chicago news
Also, LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers dominate Lollapalooza rumors.
By Kate Shepherd
Tags:
News
,
Did You Read __________?
,
winter weather
,
spring weather
,
organized crime
,
Chicago Outfit
,
mafia
,
mob
,
Sam Giancana
,
Tony Accardo
,
Michael Mann
,
Marilyn Monroe
,
Public Enemies
,
Al Capone
,
Lollapalooza
,
Radiohead
,
Lana Del Rey
,
LCD Soundsystem
,
Red Hot Chili Peppers
,
J. Cole
,
Chicago Police Department
,
City of Chicago
,
Howard Brookins Jr.
,
606 Trail
,
Paseo trail
,
Little Village
,
Pilsen
,
South by Southwest
,
Austin
,
Tinder
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Mar 17, 2016
Heads-up kinksters: Virginia is not for lovers
A federal court has ruled BDSM unprotected by our constitutional rights. Plus: an apt safe word for this occasion.
By Dan Savage
Tags:
Savage Love
,
Antonin Scalia
,
BDSM
,
Tinder
,
safe words
,
kink
,
John Doe vs. the Rectors and Visitors of George Mason University
,
Planned Parenthood
Arts & Culture
,
Feature
Feb 11, 2016
Dating during chemotherapy isn’t easy
Hair loss, libido-killing meds, the unsexy specter of death, and Tinder
By Brianna Wellen
Tags:
Feature
,
chemotherapy
,
dating
,
Tinder
,
chemo
,
cancer
,
Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 13, 2015
Aziz Ansari is the dating guru we didn't realize we needed
The comedian blends zaniness with sharp observations about love in the Internet age in his book
Modern Romance
.
By Tyler Daswick
Tags:
Arts
,
Books
,
Dim the Lights
,
Comedy
,
Modern Romance
,
Aziz Ansari
,
Eric Klinenberg
,
dating
,
Tinder
,
love crisis
,
texting
,
online dating
Browse by Issue
Other Searches
Events
Location Guide
Member Search
Movie Showtimes
Movie Reviews
Article Archives
Issue Archives
Slideshows
Comments
Videos
Images
Best of Chicago
About the
Chicago Reader
Reader
Staff
Reader
Careers
Freelancing Info
Contact Us
Advertising information
Distribution Locations Map
Reader
Subscriptions/Back Issues
Reprints
Podcasts
Chicago Reader Book Club
Upcoming
Reader
events
TixReader: Buy event tickets
Store
Support the
Reader
: Become a member
Make a donation
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2021 Chicago Reader
Powered by
Foundation