Opinion

I was immersed in hookup culture — until covid forced me into intimacy

Blythe Roberson, a comedy writer, is the author of “How to Date Men When You Hate Men” and, most recently, “America the Beautiful?”

I never would have consented to having a boyfriend if covid hadn’t forced me.

More precisely: I would have had a boyfriend for about three months and then bailed, which is what I was about to do in March 2020.