When Gemma Collins said, "It’s hell in there. It’s horror. You have to be a certain type of person to survive," you’d think she was talking about the dating scene in St Andrews. Hell, horror, and a pained existence encapsulate what many singletons experience here – a trilogy of suffering born not just from abstinence, but from actually going on dates.   The issues are obvious. Sixty percent of students are female, so there are simply more women than men. As one student noted,

The eroticism of the Main Library is a real thing. As much as the brutalist box of a building might seem sterile, soulless, and sterile again, some people are feeling aroused in certain circumstances. Not by the attraction to other people (although that can happen), but instead by their actions — their productivity, to be exact. This productivity stimulates eroticism in full swing.   Credit: Remi Mathis Let’s consider the library’s key aim of productivity as our pleasure prin