WAI no Lesbo-Grindr? Should there be a Lesbian Grindr app helping you find sexy time nearby?

by Petit Fours

I was just reading an article on Platform magazine about Grindr, the iPhone app for gay men which helps them find other gay men nearby to have boy sex with. One thing caught my eye though – a little comment asking why there was no lesbian version. And why indeed? Do you want one? Tell us in the poll below, but first let me explain how this cruisey little app works.

So it’s pretty straightforward: upload a photo, a name, maybe some information about whether you like slathering yourself in ice-cream and wearing thongs, then the phone uses the GPS to locate where you are then gives you the profiles of guys online, up for it and nearby. Location-based dating is the name for this. Look this is what Trent has written below:

Oh Trent. I’d go gay for you if I were man.

It’s pretty much the same thing as when everyone used to ask “ASL?”(age/sex/locations) in gay chatrooms before they would consider talking to you back in the 90s.*

This whole iPhone thing is just a lot more efficient: it cuts out all the people in Ohio without you having to go through everyone one by one and lets you know exactly how close you are to your object of interest. Right now, I’m 679m away from Dean and 535m away from Bluntwilly**. Some people give their tube stop rather than their precise location, but basically you get a pretty clear idea of how close they are without knowing exactly where they are. And, leaving aside major travel disruptions, you can guess how practical a quick shag is going to be.

I’ve just downloaded Grindr and it’s really fun, it makes you remember how many gays there are and it’s like you’re part of a big slightly horny community. Okay, I had to tell iTunes I’m a man, but what do they know about my gender identity anyway. Skim through the profiles nearby and you have the option to Instant Message anybody else who is online, then presumably you can arrange to, like, do whatever you want.

It’s becoming quite a mainstream idea – here’s an app like this for straighties too: Lovestruck London – with the extra feature that it sends you a text whenever someone who meets your “specifications” pops up within a 100m radius. It’s based around your work address not your home one and as you might imagine, it’s all a bit more about lunchdates than er, blow-jobs on that particular site. Straights are so inhibited.

Anyway, what made me write this article was the comment on this Platform article about Grindr, Anonymous asked “Wai no Lesbo-Grindr?”*** and WAI**** indeed? My friend and I were discussing this the other day. I could think of four reasons:

1. No-one has made one yet. Just seems horny gay men are more likely to be app developers than lezzas are.

2. People think women aren’t as into random sex as men so they think there’d be less demand for it (have these people ever been to Wish?)

3. What the hell would you say? My friend was like “Look, you’d go to a club if you wanted to pull wouldn’t you? If you saw there were 4 lesbians in SE5, what would you do about it? They’re probably just in supermarket or something” Fair point. What would my chat be…? “Hi see you live in the south-east? you know that Co-Op on the Camberwell New Road? Love it, the reduced counter surprises me everytime.” (does that work for anyone..?)

4. You know everyone anyway. My friend’s other point was around the fact that you bloody know everyone anyway. “You’d be like oh my god, there must be another lesbian in the cafe, then you’d realise it’s your friend, who you’re having coffee with.”  i.e. you’d just end up chatting to your friends and You Do That Anyway.

Thoughts? Would you use it?

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*Well, I didn’t, but I got asked it everytime I went on. By gay men, yes. Sometimes I’d pretend to be a gay man, but that’s another story.

**I’m not actually interested in BluntWilly.

***That means “why is there no lesbian version of this ‘Grindr’ application”. It’s in lolspeak.

****God, I love lolspeak.

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