The latest sex and dating trend? Celibacy.

Taylor Powell was 22 when she realized her dating life wasn't what she wanted it to be.

She was fed up with the hookup culture fostered on dating apps and looking for an emotional connection, so in order to "refocus and recenter," she began a journey of celibacy. 

"Pre-celibacy, I thought that I was down for the whole hookup culture. I thought I didn't want any feelings. I thought I was doing the right thing – I was in the in-crowd," she explains, but her sexual encounters began wearing on her emotions.

"Before I became celibate, I was dating guys who were saying, 'Oh, I do want a relationship,' 'I want these serious things,' and they're really inflating your mind with the 'we' talk. And then once you're intimate, they just drop off. Nothing," she explains. "It's a very painful form of manipulation, and that was what I experienced a lot."