This week, the girls are paying attention to the rise of abstinence in culture: Sobriety, celibacy, digital minimalism, no-shopping challenges, and other ways people are rejecting consumption.

Topics include the “sober curious” movement, going “boysober,” South Korea’s 4B and Escape the Corset movements,Julia Fox’s celibacy pride (and recent coming out), late in life lesbians,Contrapoints,Bumble’s fumbled anti-celibacy campaign, whatantidepressants are doing to our sex drive, digital detoxes,The Great Exhaustion, and de-influencing. Plus, news of the week including theDevil Wears Prada sequel andViolet Affleck’s comments on long Covid and mask bans.

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