How truthful is your dating profile?
An entrepreneur from Antwerp risks two years in prison because he turned out not to be the muscular Italian he pretended to be on Tinder. The woman who had a sex date with him felt cheated and raped. “Don’t we all imagine ourselves to be more beautiful than we actually are?”, his lawyer argues in his defense.
Introducing yourself on dating apps is a strange balancing act: how much do you reveal? And how beautifully do you package it? Are you honest about your age, if you know that you are jeopardizing your chances? Do you say you are a journalist if you know the prejudices some people harbor about that profession? How recent and truthful are your photos? And to what extent do you think it is permissible for others to embellish their truth?
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