London - As the writer behind Carrie Bradshaw’s romantic misadventures in Sex And The City, Candace Bushnell helped a generation of women navigate the treacherous world of modern dating.
But the novelist, 56, admits she has been stumped by the rise of dating apps and websites, which she claims means people are “always looking for a bigger and better deal”.
The divorcee blames the surge in technological dating tools such as Tinder for people, particularly men, being less committed to relationships than they once were.
She believes that such apps are “designed by men to benefit men” because they give them an endless stream of potential trysts, making them less likely to settle down.
Speaking as her new novel Killing Monica is published this week, she said: “An app can maybe get a man to your side but it’s not going to make him love you. It feels like people are always looking for a bigger and better deal.
“Men have figured out how to do the two, three month thing with a woman and then they disappear. For men who aren’t ready to settle down [the technology] means they have more choices”.
The television show Sex And The City was loosely adapted from a series of newspaper columns written by Miss Bushnell. It followed the lives of four women friends in New York as they tried to balance their careers with either finding or maintaining romantic relationships.
Daily Mail