ABSTRACT
We remain highly dependent upon media narratives that offer contradictory accounts of men’s responses to contemporary dating practices. On the one hand, such narratives claim that new forms of dating are providing men with the opportunity to be more caring and sensitive. On the other, such accounts suggest that there is a ‘menaissance’ – a cultural moment where ‘post-sensitive’ men are responding to change by drawing upon traditional masculine tropes such as emotional stoicism and toughness. To explore men, masculinity and dating, this chapter provides a short summary of dating and history, followed by a consideration of gender, dating and power. The chapter ends by suggesting that new dating contexts are producing emergent masculinities.
