If previously, my feelings towards the platform were ambivalent, they have now been crystallised: I actively dislike it. My latest foray is the last one I will make. My love affair with Grindr has always been more of a regrettable fling which invariably ends with me deleting the app from my phone within a couple of days. This realisation was further compounded when I recently re-joined Grindr. In reality, I never really know if the person I am about to meet is a safe bet. But as the saying goes, pride comes before a fall. My experience of meeting men from these sites has been overwhelmingly positive, and I have always prided myself on being a good judge of character. Initially the date had gone well, but it ended badly and he was raped.Īs a user of gay dating sites, this made me think about the danger inherent in meeting men who I know nothing about, other than what they choose to tell me, which may or may not be true. It was the first contact he had had with other gay men. Beforehand, I researched the charity and read the testimony of a young man who had met someone he had been chatting to on an internet dating site.
