Part of me wants to say something serious about the issue of unions being crushed by corporate America, however the other part wants to laugh with schadenfreude at the hilarious mistake management have made here. Either way a lot of people’s sex lives might be affected 🤷
After, HIV/AIDS, yes. Let’s take a look.
Grindr is preventing gay male sexual and romantic culture to evolve past simple and fast hookups. These sexual encounters that used to happen in parks, public toilets, and other cruising spots were a necessity of the time when being gay in public could have cost you your life. We could now date like heterosexual people do (in the West at least) but most people don’t, sex is too easy to get on Grindr.
That’s also an issue. Sex shouldn’t be so easy to get. Wanting sex should be a motivation to get out of your house, go to places, meet new people. I know so many gay men who are extremely lonely and just have one Grindr hookup after the other. Often, drugs are involved. And even if you go one of the few remaining gay bars or clubs, guess what - everyone is looking at Grindr on their phones.
As a result, very few men I’ve met in my 33 years of life and 15 years of gay dating have had any game, but almost all have zero chill. Everything needs to be now. Show me your dick, how do you like to fuck? It’s actually not normal to exchange dick and hole pics before you even said hello to the person in real life.
Grindr has turned gay men into pitiful sex addicts, there’s no thrill, there’s no chase, it’s like ordering Doordash.
As an aside, in countries that are not yet on the Western level of gay acceptance, Grindr is a convenient replacement for cruising so those men don’t even have to be visible as gay. In fact, I bet conservative politicians in places like Hungary or Poland really like Grindr (and not just because some of them are on it) because it keeps gay men confined and out of sight.