
On the free online-dating site OKCupid, Lauren is known as nebulaeandstuff: 23. Even if I would just have fun with you … you need to not approach it that way.”

“Seventy percent of the messages are straight-up blunt, vulgar shit. “ Annnnd … he’s from South Dakota,” Lauren says, turning off her phone, which will ping with a dozen new queries before the waiter brings the check.

I would swim the Amazon upstream with an airtank filled with Rosie O’Donnell’s queefs … not usually into girls with tats but ur sexy we should chill i got a huge cock … “That’s kind of normal,” she says, sipping a bourbon on the rocks. I think I literally said out loud, “Yes, you.” Thunderstruck! You’re like the girl I would make a profile of if I was making my ideal match. Photo: Christopher Anderson/ Magnum Photos/New York MagazineĪt a quiet table in a dimly lit Lower East Side Italian restaurant, Lauren Urasek, a poised 23-year-old makeup artist with a Cleopatra haircut and cherry-red lipstick, is lit by the glow of her iPhone as she flips through online-dating messages.