Why are there not more venues for straight couples to have casual, anonymized, No Strings Attached, sex? I’ve heard the question many times before and I’ve disliked every answer.
Most of them seem to boil down to stereotypes. They go something like: gay men are promiscuous. Heterosexuality always has been, and always will be, a sad compromise between men who want to get as much sex for as little affection as women can wheedle out of them, etc. I think these stereotypes are both unkind and untrue. I wanted to see whether I could come up with something better. Henry arrives and we cook up an experiment to try to answer my editor’s question. We spend a night hopping from bar to bar together and see what kinds of romantic or sexual prospects each of these apps presents us. I tell anyone I match with that I am in this for research as soon as meeting IRL comes up.