“It’s like a science fictional future where every woman on Earth is dead, and some Dilbert-like engineer has replaced them with badly-designed robots.” Annalee Newitz took a close look at the Ashley Madison database and found something that might not seem all that surprising. There are almost no real women. So yes. Your wife just left you for cheating with an avatar.

+ WaPo: Hookup culture isn’t the real problem facing singles today. It’s math.

+ GQ’s Taffy Brodesser-Akner on sugar daddies and the bold new love-transactional economy: “A thing you should know is that there are very few people to root for in this story.” (I’m not quite sure how much of this story is real, but I’m trying to finally convince my dad to subscribe…)