Grindr THE ‘dating’ app for queer men does its very best to appear ‘relevant’ and keep its brand in the (gay) public eye with a myriad of ideas/statements. This year they launched Grindr Valentines Day Meat Markets, and then they produced a dreadfully unfunny web series called Bridegroom.
Despite the raunchy image they want to portray Grindr is actually owned by U.S.-based (very heterosexual) San Vicente Acquisition LLC which bought it from Chinese gaming company Kunlin for $608 million. Which is no laughing matter. Nor was the $12million fine the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) levied for violating its rules. Now Grindr wants to tell us there is a ‘new’ option for gay men to have sex.
If you thought the three options are ‘top’ ‘bottom’ and versatile, then think again. If you are a gay man who for any reason does not like anal sex, then there is evidently now a fourth option. ‘side’
“A lot of tops and bottoms call sides boring, virgins, trauma survivors, but Grindr adding side as an option in the company with the typical tops and bottoms could change this. “It’s giving sides a sense of belonging like they don’t have to feel left out of the gay male community sexually,” Kort said.
P.S. Urban Dictionary definitions for the term “side,“ are a man who does not partake in anal-penetrative sex” but “will engage in other forms of same-sex activity: fellatio, frottage, mutual masturbation, etc.”
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