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Dec 2024
41m 34s

Is cuffing season real?

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Cuffing season. Or is it? That’s the question Antares asked this week. She told her lovelorn friend he’ll have better luck on dating apps once the temperatures drop, but then she wondered… is that actually true? This week on Explain It to Me, host Jonquilyn Hill goes on a journey to find out if Cuffing Season is real. She speaks with artist Musa Murchison, Alison Gemmill of the Hopkins Population Center, Michael Kaye of OKCupid, and Devyn Simone of Tinder to find out.


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Credits:

Jonquilyn Hill, host and producer

Sofi LaLonde, producer

Cristian Ayala, engineer

Caitlin PenzeyMoog and Kim Eggleston, fact-checkers

Carla Javier, supervising producer

Jorge Just, editor

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