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Gay Hookup Apps: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
09.22.20
We sort through it so you don’t include to.
Grindr
“You gay bro?”
“Nah just here to network”
Who’s on it? Lots of people. Grindr is international, and guys apply it to network and chat as often as they use it to actually facilitate a hang up. At the very least it’s a excellent way to figure out if that guy at the gym is same-sex attracted or not.
Best for? Scoping out the scene in a new town, flirting for weeks with someone you’ll never meet, getting catfished.
Downsides? Upgrading to Grindr Unlimited is a jaw dropping TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE DOLLARS per year, money which could alternatively go towards...I don’t know a plane ticket somewhere cool? Like, 75 separate OnlyFans subscriptions? A very welcome donation to the charity of your choice?
Sniffies
“looking?”
“yeah”
“come over”
Who’s on it? Sniffies is a pretty mixed crowd. DL, bi, married, and curious guys are drawn to Sniffies because it’s easy to be as anonymous as they’d fancy . It’s also easy to find glory holes and cruising locales for a quick hook up. Kinksters and horndogs are
How Sniffies Saved Cruising
“Is this a Grindr thing?”
A miss answers her door in curlers. The man knocking tries to explain: He’s supposed to be gathering up with someone from a, uh, “guy on guy” ad. He’s been given the wrong handle, apparently, and his intended “guy”—one who advertised himself as having a penchant for being on the receiving end of many other guys—is instead a perplexed woman with no intention of hosting. To add to the confusion, the “Grindr thing” was actually a botched appointment facilitated by something called … Sniffies. This cringetastic interaction—which the woman in curlers filmed—now has over 7 million views on TikTok. And understandably, it has prompted the unenlightened commentariat to inquire: What the fuck is Sniffies?
Today, Sniffies is a web-based app for men looking for sex with other men, often in common spaces—what traditionalists would dial “cruising.” The site actually started as an underwear trading platform, but in 2018, founder Blake Gallagher repurposed the website into a literal heat guide for men of the liking-men persuasion.* Manhattan, for example, appears as a blue city grid speckled with circles: Some are profiles of cruisers, whi
As a video producer and interviewee in the Snippies Online Dating Horror Stories, I can tell you that there was much more to my story than what made ultimate cut. So, here are the full gory details of one of my more noteworthy New York City dating escapades.
At the peak of my online dating career I would try almost any app or service that existed, from the traditional Match.com to the questionable algorithms of Coffee Meets Bagel. Like many New Yorkers, Tinder was one of the apps that (shamefully) worked its way into regular use on my phone. While I was willing to believe that it would be workable for me to detect someone, I never wasted a single second considering Tinder would present me with the potential next rung on the ladder of career advancement.
What started as a seemingly naive night of swiping while dog sitting took an interesting turn when I matched up with “Jane.” She was short with an affinity for avocados and incisive wit. We met up at a bar in Brooklyn famous for its extensive craft beer list and a propensity for dim lighting. Throughout the course of the date, conversation settled on our current employment situations where we subsequently found out that ou
Back on the Prowl With Sniffies
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While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will deliver on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the 1918 pandemic, a immediate scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a packed roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a brand-new hookup website (that’s website, not app) has collected itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.
Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken assist to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a exist updated GPS map. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so common on the traditio
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