Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Online Dating

The illusion of finding true love, through half-hearted email exchanges, is reachable via online dating. At least that's what hopeless romantics like myself want to believe.

Adam-4-Adam is the most popular and legitimate gay online dating service. Free to enroll and easy to navigate, this online dating site is at the very least an eventful way to spend an evening.

I should warm you, not everyone on Adam-4-Adam is looking to walk down the aisle or a dinner party with your parents over the holidays. That's right, consistent with the accurate generalization that the homosexual community is sexually promiscuous, Adam-4-Adam makes hooking-up with a random person seamlessly easy. In short, if you're looking for casual sex, without looking hard at all, this is also the site for you. Dodging sexual advances -- like a 50 year-old man asking you for sexual favors via a message on Adam-4-Adam -- is an interesting game. And yet, for those of us who frequent San Francisco's gay bar district, this is hardly something new.

Nevertheless, in an effort to continue exploring the options of dating in my twenties, I will continue searching for that special someone worth calling my boyfriend.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting. I always thought Manhunt was where to find the virtual gay.

Anonymous said...

Manhunt.com was the first one to come along, so yes, it is still widely used for virtual gays meeting each other. However, for my specific demographic -- gay male in my twenties -- unless I'm looking for sex, Adam-4-Adam is the most legitimate "dating" site. Now, some people would argue that gay dating is a softer word for hanging-out until you have sex -- at least on average. This debate aside, people looking for just sex -- like in 5 minutes or with some person who only shows a photo of their penis -- use Manhunt. Gays looking for just sex can use A-4-A, but it's much more widely used and respected for dating.