Unseen, Part 3: Popular Gay Datg App Grdr Pos Exploatn Risk To Mors

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• UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
• FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
• THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
• UNRAGE GAY AND BI TEENS USE GRDR FOR MORE THAN JT HOOKUPS, STUDY FDSDPE S AGE RTRICTNS, THE LGBT HOOKUP APP ULD BE HELPG GAY AND BI TEEN BOYS E OUT AND FD {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY SAM MANZELLAMAY 21, 2018/11:31 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3754PX;WIDTH:5631PX;}LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAGLONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: THE "GRDR" APP LOGO IS SEEN AMONGST OTHER DATG APPS ON A MOBILE PHONE SCREEN ON NOVEMBER 24, 2016 LONDON, ENGLAND. FOLLOWG A NUMBER OF ATHS LKED TO THE E OF ANONYMO ONLE DATG APPS, THE POLICE HAVE WARNED ERS TO BE AWARE OF THE RISKS VOLVED, FOLLOWG THE GROWTH THE SLE OF VLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSLTS LKED TO THEIR E. (PHOTO BY LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAG)BY SAM MANZELLAMAY 21, 2018 / 11:31 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"UNRAGE GAY AND BI TEENS USE GRDR FOR MORE THAN JT HOOKUPS, STUDY FDS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-05-21T15:31:29.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-05-21T15:31:29.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"SAM MANZELLA","KEYWORDS":"BISEXUAL","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TURNS OUT GRDR ISN'T JT FOR HOOKUPS: A NEW STUDY SUGGTS THAT TEENAGE BOYS ARE G THE POPULAR DATG APP TO FD IENDSHIP, ROMANCE, AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE REPORT, PUBLISHED A RECENT EDN OF THE JOURNAL OF ADOLCENT HEALTH, PILED DATA OM AN ONLE SURVEY OF MORE THAN 200 SEXUALLY ACTIVE TEENAGE BOYS AG 14–17. MORE THAN 50% OF RPONNTS REPORTED G GRDR AND SIAR LGBT DATG APPS FOR MORE THAN JT SEX—SPE, OF URSE, THE APP'S 18+ OR 21+ AGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STUDY'S THORS SAY 'S THE FIRST EP DIVE TO THE SEXUAL HABS OF GAY AND BI TEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I WAS SURPRISED WE DIDN’T KNOW THIS RMATN WHEN WE STARTED THE STUDY, BUT A LOT OF FOLKS DON’T DO REARCH ON PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18, PECIALLY ON LGBT TEENS UNR THE AGE OF 18, FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS," THOR DR. KATHRYN MAPAGAL, A PROFSOR AT NORTHWTERN UNIVERSY, TOLD THE CHIGO TRIBUNE. "WE FOUND THAT TEENS THIS STUDY WERE SUPER EXCED THAT SOMEBODY WAS PAYG ATTENTN WH WHAT WAS GOG ON THEIR LIV, AND HOW THE APPS PLAYED A ROLE THEIR SEXUAL VELOPMENT AND G-OUT PROCS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REARCHERS BELIEVE THAT THE APP'S FUNCTNALI MIGHT APPEAL TO CLOSETED OR NEWLY OUT TEENS, WHO MIGHT BE NAVIGATG SAME-SEX DATG OR SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS FOR THE FIRST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE ALSO FOUND THAT ALTHOUGH [TEENS] MIGHT HAVE HAD SEXUAL RELATNS WH [OTHER GRDR ERS], THE FOLKS MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO IENDS, THEY MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO BOYIENDS," MAPAGAL ADD. "SO THERE IS SOME EVINCE THAT YOUTH ARE GETTG LOTS MORE OUT OF THE APPS THAN JT SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TEAM ALSO FOUND THAT PARTICIPANTS WHO ED GRDR WERE MORE LIKELY TO ACCS SEXUAL HEALTHRE SERVIC, LIKE HIV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A STATEMENT, GRDR SAID THAT DO NOT NDONE E OF THE APP BY ANYBODY WHO IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS

German Chavez was 14 years old when he first started g a gay datg app lled Grdr to fd adult men to pay him for need to help his troubled sgle mother pay the bills, he said, and had no trouble fdg men to purchase him on the popular lotn-based mobile 25 and years away om the sex tra, Chavez is warng other mors to stay away om Grdr, one of the most popular apps the untry for gay and bisexual men. The pany touts s mobile platform as “The World’s Largt Social Networkg App for Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer People” and says s ers have to be 18 years old and the app is teemg wh unrage gay, bisexual and qutng boys, acrdg to rearchers, child exploatn specialists and ers like Chavez who say they n easily lie about their age to ga accs to the LGBTQ teens are seekg nnectn a world that provis few safe spac, rearchers say.

More than half of sexually active gay and bisexual boys between the ag of 14 and 17 fd sexual partners on Grdr and other siar apps, acrdg to a 2018 study by Northwtern Universy rearchers. Turban recently -published an article the Journal of the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry timatg that about one quarter of all gay and bisexual adolcent mal are g Grdr and siar apps — likely hundreds of thoands of youth natnwi.

He’s seen gay teens end up at an emergency room Boston — where he worked until last year — crisis after beg sexually exploed by men they met on Grdr yet too ashamed to seek help om other adults.

FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS

He says he has received some phback om members of the gay muny about his foc on Grdr, when there are so many s targetg children.

There’s a history of anti-gay propaganda patg gay men as pedophil, he said, when there is no rearch to show they are more likely to be predators than others.

But Turban says homophobia is also to blame for why LGBTQ youth have so few outlets to fd timacy and also why their victimizatn is so seldom talked about.

THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS

He says clicians and fay members should do more to talk to gay youth about the health and safety risks of datg apps. “The wild wt of the gay world”. Bradley Tyrrell, 35, of Newton says the app is a “double-edged sword” — a place to meet gay men but also wh many unknowns.

“It’s the wild wt of the gay world.

UNRAGE GAY AND BI TEENS USE GRDR FOR MORE THAN JT HOOKUPS, STUDY FDSDPE S AGE RTRICTNS, THE LGBT HOOKUP APP ULD BE HELPG GAY AND BI TEEN BOYS E OUT AND FD {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY SAM MANZELLAMAY 21, 2018/11:31 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3754PX;WIDTH:5631PX;}LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAGLONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: THE "GRDR" APP LOGO IS SEEN AMONGST OTHER DATG APPS ON A MOBILE PHONE SCREEN ON NOVEMBER 24, 2016 LONDON, ENGLAND. FOLLOWG A NUMBER OF ATHS LKED TO THE E OF ANONYMO ONLE DATG APPS, THE POLICE HAVE WARNED ERS TO BE AWARE OF THE RISKS VOLVED, FOLLOWG THE GROWTH THE SLE OF VLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSLTS LKED TO THEIR E. (PHOTO BY LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAG)BY SAM MANZELLAMAY 21, 2018 / 11:31 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"UNRAGE GAY AND BI TEENS USE GRDR FOR MORE THAN JT HOOKUPS, STUDY FDS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-05-21T15:31:29.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-05-21T15:31:29.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"SAM MANZELLA","KEYWORDS":"BISEXUAL","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TURNS OUT GRDR ISN'T JT FOR HOOKUPS: A NEW STUDY SUGGTS THAT TEENAGE BOYS ARE G THE POPULAR DATG APP TO FD IENDSHIP, ROMANCE, AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE REPORT, PUBLISHED A RECENT EDN OF THE JOURNAL OF ADOLCENT HEALTH, PILED DATA OM AN ONLE SURVEY OF MORE THAN 200 SEXUALLY ACTIVE TEENAGE BOYS AG 14–17. MORE THAN 50% OF RPONNTS REPORTED G GRDR AND SIAR LGBT DATG APPS FOR MORE THAN JT SEX—SPE, OF URSE, THE APP'S 18+ OR 21+ AGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STUDY'S THORS SAY 'S THE FIRST EP DIVE TO THE SEXUAL HABS OF GAY AND BI TEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I WAS SURPRISED WE DIDN’T KNOW THIS RMATN WHEN WE STARTED THE STUDY, BUT A LOT OF FOLKS DON’T DO REARCH ON PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18, PECIALLY ON LGBT TEENS UNR THE AGE OF 18, FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS," THOR DR. KATHRYN MAPAGAL, A PROFSOR AT NORTHWTERN UNIVERSY, TOLD THE CHIGO TRIBUNE. "WE FOUND THAT TEENS THIS STUDY WERE SUPER EXCED THAT SOMEBODY WAS PAYG ATTENTN WH WHAT WAS GOG ON THEIR LIV, AND HOW THE APPS PLAYED A ROLE THEIR SEXUAL VELOPMENT AND G-OUT PROCS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REARCHERS BELIEVE THAT THE APP'S FUNCTNALI MIGHT APPEAL TO CLOSETED OR NEWLY OUT TEENS, WHO MIGHT BE NAVIGATG SAME-SEX DATG OR SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS FOR THE FIRST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE ALSO FOUND THAT ALTHOUGH [TEENS] MIGHT HAVE HAD SEXUAL RELATNS WH [OTHER GRDR ERS], THE FOLKS MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO IENDS, THEY MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO BOYIENDS," MAPAGAL ADD. "SO THERE IS SOME EVINCE THAT YOUTH ARE GETTG LOTS MORE OUT OF THE APPS THAN JT SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TEAM ALSO FOUND THAT PARTICIPANTS WHO ED GRDR WERE MORE LIKELY TO ACCS SEXUAL HEALTHRE SERVIC, LIKE HIV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A STATEMENT, GRDR SAID THAT DO NOT NDONE E OF THE APP BY ANYBODY WHO IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Kathryn Mapagal, a rearch profsor at Northwtern Universy, says she first asked teens about hook-up apps 2016 when she was preparg a sex tn program for gay and bisexual boys.

Her team nducted more surveys to talk about why they get on the apps — often gay and qutng teens lookg for muny a world that don’t wele them. Chavez says he first turned to Grdr middle school hopg to learn om others about what means to be gay, qutns he uldn’t answer at home.