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Contents:
- THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S
- ARE GAY DATG APPS INPATIBLE WH FDG LOVE?
- GAY AND CAN'T FD A PARTNER?
- 5 (RATHER BLUNT) REASONS WHY GAY MEN STGGLE TO FD HAPPS
- THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO DATG AFTER 50
- HOW TO MEET GAY GUYS WHOUT GRDR (AUG. 2023)
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
- FDG LOVE: THE 15 BT GAY DATG S FOR RELATNSHIPS
- GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S
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While some gay datg webs are very much about sex, sex, and nothg but the sex… there are some alternative optns for gay men, women, and queer people lookg for love. If you’ve read our eharmony review, you’ll know that eharmony has the potential to be one of the bt gay datg s for ser relatnships.
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5 (RATHER BLUNT) REASONS WHY GAY MEN STGGLE TO FD HAPPS
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Recent years have seen a proliferatn of webs and smartphone apps signed to help gay men pursue their sexual liberatn a digal age.
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But when apps are signed to provi immediate sexual gratifitn, are they pable of servg the needs of gay men seekg love and long-term relatnships? A recent study out of France by Christian Lippe explored the nversatnal differenc between ers of Grdr and Tr (wh the former terg to gay men, while the latter is a datg applitn ed by LGBTQ+ and heterosexual dividuals). By examg the nversatnal texts of participants who agreed to share their app chat history as well as through -person terviews, Lippe noted that gay men tend to scribe a sense of “llective prsure” to nform to the subculture’s foc on hookg up through apps like Grdr.
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Cumulatively, Lippe’s rearch illtrat that gay men who e apps might strategilly lim the amount of romantic nnotatn nversatns onle to ensure that the arranged meet-up remas strictly sexual nature.
If gay men th perceive the social norm on datg apps to be towards sual enunters, what is this likely to nvey to men searchg for love?
A recent study out of the Universy of Toronto terviewed 41 men livg downtown Toronto to learn more about how gay men unrstood the ncept of nnectn wh the ntext of gay datg apps.
GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
More specifilly, the study was terted how participants' seekg short or long-term nnectns wh others was associated wh their sense of cln wh gay datg apps’ onle muni. The rearch nclud that gay men felt they were expected to prent themselv on datg apps as nfint, self-assured, and whout any securi.
Prev rearch has shown that many gay men wh apps prefer to prent themselv a masculized fashn by prentg their bodi as f and -shape and g short phras whout any sentimental or romantic nnotatns. Ined, femmephobia, or the soc-cultural valuatn and subordatn of femy, is mon wh ntemporary gay men’s spac and has been associated wh how men prent themselv onle. The Universy of Toronto study nnected femmephobia to the experience of gay men on datg apps to explore how might shape the way men feel they should teract wh other gay men onle environments.
In other words, might femmephobia be a ntributg factor to the social norms of onle datg for gay men that support short-term hookups and disurage the openly stated sire for a romantic relatnship? The study suggted that femmephobia and the femizatn of beg vulnerable, timate, emotnally pennt, and/or romantic functn together to disurage gay men om beg timate wh each other about their feelgs.