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FEATURE
SWIPE OUT
The best (and worst) new dating apps
The demand for mobile dating is more throbbing than ever. Over the past year, dating apps have popped up like boners, with apps for every dating demographic you
can imagine. There are dating apps for fit people, fat people, trans people and poly people. Whether you’re a farmer, a stoner, or a senior, you can get laid with your
phone. Here are a few of our favorite apps, and a few that are hard to believe.
THE BEST
Dating on a Higher Level
Now that cannabis is either legal or “medical” in so many states,
people want to enjoy the wonder weed with other sexy (stoned)
people. Sex and cannabis can be an
amazingly erotic experience, and many sex
therapists recommend couples try the plant
for its sensual, relaxing yet exciting side
effects. (Fun fact: one strain, formerly
called “Mr. Nice,” was found to be
so great for sex that it was renamed
“Sexpot.”)
High There is a new dating app for
“the modern cannabis consumer.” It’s
for people who want to “weed out”
other people who won’t judge them for
enjoying cannabis, which btw has fewer
side effects than alcohol. For those who
see themselves as pot connoisseurs rather
than “stoners,” the new app helps you meet
your future bud-smoking sex buddy.
The app asks questions only a pot app would
ask, like your preferences (sativa, indica, edibles)
and what your “energy level” is once you’re high. The
app locates users near you and even lets you post a video,
perfect for letting someone know what you really think right
after you just took a big bong hit.
We also like 420singles.com, a “420 friendly dating site built for
stoners for stoners.” On this site and app with a “solid base of 42,000 real
members,” you can “message, chat, flirt, skype and get high with single
stoner guys and girls online or from your phone.” “Cannabis is slowly
becoming legal all over the world,” they say, “so jump on the fun train and
start dating other singles who share the same for the magical Cannabis
plant.”
The More The Merrier Dating
For anyone already in a relationship who would really like to be in an “open
relationship,” there is a new dating site just for you. In its first week,
Openminded.com attracted 36,000 new members. This means there are tons
of people, both men and women, who are curious or seriously
interested in the new sexual frontier of “non-monogomish”
or polyamorous relationships. The lifestyle has its roots in
the hippie 1960s, when it was known as “wife swapping”
(“wife tasting”) or “group marriage” (“You may all kiss
the bride”).
Since then, millennials, aged 18-34, are more inclined
to explore dating more than one person at a time
because they often came from divorced parents, and
don’t buy into the concept of traditional, monogamous
relationships. Plus, millennials are more bisexual and
more open to “Three is not a crowd” dating.
The dating site was founded by Brandon Wade,
the brains behind WhatsYourPrice.com, and
SeekingArrangement.com, the successful site that started
the sugar baby phenomenon. He wanted to start a dating
site where people could define their own relationships. The
site has the most interesting sign-up form we’ve ever seen on
a dating site. Under “select your gender” its selections include
“male, female, agender, androgynous, bigender, cis, gender fluid,
gender non-conforming, and gender questioning.”
Under “Romantic Orientation” the options are “heteroromantic,
binoromantic, homoromantic, pannoromantic, polyromantic, skolioromantic,
aroromantic, heteroflexible, sociosexual, androsexual, and sapiofluxuating,” which
requires an hour of googling the categories. We love the thinking of this site; if
you think dating is difficult being straight, try being a transgender polyromantic
heteroflexible.
And finally, under “I’m interested in” the choices are “man, woman, MTF, FTM,
two-spirit, transmasculine, non-binary, pangender, transsexual, neutrois, and
gendervarient.” Finally, a site where nobody feels left out.
SEXPLORATIONS | By Anka Radakovich
THE WORST
White Racist Seeks Other White Racists
A new dating site has debuted for white people who
want to date other white people. ’Cuz it’s just so hard
to meet white people!
For those people who don’t want to date anyone
outside their race, there’s a dating site for racists
to meet other racists! Gigantic billboard ads have
appeared in Utah, where most of the population is
white.
Sam Russell, a used car salesman and founder of
WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com, says he came up with
the idea after “being bombarded” with television ads
for BlackPeopleMeet.com. Russell told a television
station in West Valley City, Utah, where he lived
that “It was an inexpensive way for us to begin and
we hoped that it would draw some attention and get
some media buzz.”
The media buzzed and he got his much-
needed attention. More than one journalist called
him a “racist” and another called him a “white
supremacist.” Russell tried to defend himself by
saying, “The last thing in the world I am is a racist. I
dated a black woman once.”
In the “about us” section on the site Russell writes
that the site is for “like-minded people” to find a
“soul mate.”
If you think White People Meet is scary, check
out Wasp.Love, the site for people who only want
to procreate with people of the same (white) race
to “preserve their heritage.” Don’t even think of
joining this dating site unless your Ancestry.com
DNA test says you’re 100 percent White Anglo Saxon
Protestant, Irish, Scottish, English or German. Or
Nazi.
Wasp.Love is the site for “Traditional Christian,
White Nationalism, Quiverfull, Confederate,
Southern Nationalist, Christian Identity, Kinism, and
Alt Right” they say. Here’s an app where evangelical
Christians can get together and hate their other-than-
Christian neighbors. The Anti-Defamation League
has described “Kinism” as “A racist and anti-Semitic
religious movement” that has “appeal for hardcore
white supremacists ... in their minds, it legitimizes
their racism and anti-Semitism.”
On this dating site you’ll find bible believin’, Jesus
Freakin’, black people hatin’ white racists who hope
to procreate with other racists. “Love your race!” the
app proclaims. Preserve your heritage,” says the app’s
propaganda. “The patriarchs of the Old Testament
continually warned against marrying strange wives
which would lead to idolatry. We must obey the
wisdom of our fathers by only marrying within our
own race,” they stress. The site has thousands of
members to meet—for a nice church date on Sunday,
followed by a KKK meeting.
Anka Radakovich is legendary sex columnist who wrote a groundbreaking column for Details magazine. Currently she writes for British GQ and Sexpert.com. She is the author of three
books, including her newest, The Wild Girls Club, Part 2. She has appeared multiple times on television talk shows, including eight appearances with Conan O’Brien. She is also a certified
sexologist. We are thrilled to have her as a contributor. Follow Anka Radakovich on Twitter: @ankarad.
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