That article showed up in one of my Medium emails, too.

The Medium algorithm is clearly broken. I never click links on how to sleep with anybody. Or date. Or anything remotely similar. So why am I getting this kind of garbage in my feed?

I can't blame Google tracking, either. I don't click on this kind of stuff outside of Medium.

I didn't click that one, either, because I knew if I did, it might feed the Medium monster that relishes sending us that kind of crap.

Your analysis of the article doesn't surprise me. It's all about predatory behavior.

And the fact that Medium is sending us stuff like this means that they are sending it to a much wider audience than their algorithms are probably telling them to.

So the question again becomes: Why?