From "mail-order brides" to "passport bros," the international dating industry sells traditional gender roles, a Texas A&M University researcher says. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Fifteen years ...

Online dating is getting more popular every year. According to Statista’s Digital Market Overlook, the number of active users who use the services of dating websites will reach 413 million people by ...

Many men, especially those from Western countries, are driven to find foreign brides to create strong family values. Indeed, with the advent of international dating, it became easy to find a partner ...

Office worker Cho, 35 years old, visited Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Japan, late last year. It was not for tourism. He stayed there for two days and went on introduction meetings with over 20 Japanese women.

Fifteen years ago, when I started studying the international dating industry, few people took the subject seriously. The term "mail-order bride" was treated as a punch line -- something outdated, ...