Nick Dolding/Stone/Getty Images“Send me photos of the positions you want to explore,” R, 34, instructed as I scrolled through the endless, eyebrow-raising Shibari examples on the website he’d sent me. R and I had started talking a week earlier — first on Hinge, then by text, eventually video chat. “Hmmm. Number 4 and 23 xoxo,” I replied. And just like that, I’d confirmed my first date from an app, ever, at 38.This new dating era looks a whole lot different than the one in my early 20s. After a long marriage, three kids, and a partnership right after that traumatized me in ways I’m still unpack...

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