<![CDATA[End Of Gay Culture Watch: A Hetero Grindr, Ctd]]>Hetero Grindr will apparently be more text than picture based. Bryan Lowder is skeptical that this will work:

[T]he real appeal of Grindr seems to be a kind of friendly/titillating voyeurism, spiked, perhaps, with a shot or two of narcissism. True, Grindr users certainly find friendship, sex, and even love through the app, but in my experience, grinding is really just a more advanced version of that old website “Hot-or-Not.” You look to see who’s cute or busted, you chat to see what people will say, and you criticize/praise profiles to your friends depending on your tastes. Then, you close it and check your email or, you know, talk to your friends in real life.

Forget Hetero Grindr; OK Cupid got there first, last month:

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