HBO to Premiere SWIPED: HOOKING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE

With more than 40 million Americans currently engaging in online and app dating, the internet has become an ubiquitous tool in modern courtship. Dating sites and apps such as Tinder, OkCupid, Match, Bumble, Hinge and others are part of a billion-dollar industry that is rapidly changing the rules of dating, both expanding and accelerating access to potential mates for everything from "hookups" to long-term relationships. Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (premiering on HBO on September 10 at 10pm ET) follows several 20-something women and men from around the country, who describe in unvarnished detail their experiences with dating apps. As they navigate a seemingly unlimited stream of potential partners, app users navigate the hookup culture, unwanted explicit messages, and the capriciousness of simply "swiping right" (attractive) or "swiping left" (unattractive).

Executive produced by Graydon Carter (former Vanity Fair Editor in Chief), Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age is the directorial debut of Nancy Jo Sales, an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author (The Bling Ring) whose 2015 Vanity Fair piece, Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse started a media firestorm. Since Sales' piece, the dating app Hinge has made several significant changes to address the dating-app dystopia.

SWIPED also dives into the potential dangers and ramifications of dating apps - highlighting sexual assault stories, murder cases, toxic masculinity, and bouts of revenge porn that have sprouted from the seedy side of the online dating world. Sales taps into how these sites provide a disconnect between sexuality and romance, as well as the pressure users feel to impress others on these apps. In addition to featuring real people who have experienced dating online, the film also features interviews with founders and CEOs of some of the most widely used dating sites, as well as experts and academics who offer social and historical context to the rapidly evolving nature of dating today.