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If you're a regular Grindr user, you'll already know the almost endless possibilities of this dating app for gay men. And it is that there are not only profiles with whom to talk, exchange photos, meet or have any type of love relationship, it also seems to have become a real job market. Or, rather, in a place where offering all kinds of paid services, and not necessarily sexual Although there are also the latter…
Grindr Trades Place
Are you a hairdresser and are you unemployed or do you need a salary? Well why not create a professional profile on Grindr? After all, there are many nearby users (in urban centers) who will see your profile, who they spend hours connected and that they can contract your services. And, by the way, you can even find the love of your life. Or the dust of your night.
The people behind theseprofiles don't always have things so clearThe taxi driver Mr Avelain tells us about in his first career video from Grindr makes it clear that he is straight. In case the rest of the homosexuals who visit the application have some kind of intention other than to flirt with that profile. Crazy, huh? But he's willing to charge a race and give you the back seats so you can get dirty and exploit all kinds of sexual fantasies along the way.Of course, let it be clear that it is one thing to carry out homosexual sexual practices and another very different to look at homosexual sexual practices. And this everyone knows. The point is that the service is offered and whether you want to flirt or want a ride home, you can do it all from Grindr.
But the list of jobs goes much further. Household cleaners, masseurs (this has cloth to cut), psychologists, physical trainers... There is everything A variety that is a pleasure to see, especially if you take it with humor the descriptions of all these profiles. And it is that there are strange situations, out of place and very contradictory. Sex or employment? Why choose…
Massages, prostitution and many drugs
Grindr's business is vast, and perhaps a little more "shady" than you think. Professional profiles for unemployed people or those who need a bonus? It is even logical.Turn a social network into a drug market and a place for prostitution? Maybe it will attract more attention. But it happens. And a lot
It is not uncommon to find profiles with the diamond emoticon in the nick of their name. It is not an ornament. It is a very clear symbol that the services provided by that profile are paid. But, more specifically, to imply that it is about sexual services. Prostitution. The world's oldest craft is also present on Grindr in this relatively subtle way. And it is that, if not all users already know him, few are left to discover that his kindness and willingness to satisfy them has a price. Again: if there's a diamond emoticon lying around, get your wallet ready.
But beware, drugs are also circulating on Grindr. Also with subtle references and indications for those who seek or sell them, and going more or less unnoticed by the rest.Do you know what “the blue ones” are? Do you know the reference “4:20”? Well, if the only thing you know is the Popper, there is a whole world of substances to discover. You just have to find the dealers who use these references in their profiles. But beware, there are not only those who want to do the buying and selling business here, there is also the world of chill, chemsex and many other practices in which drugs are the protagonists.
Public always online
The problem for Grindr users is that there is little control over these professional or pseudo-professional profiles that live here. And neither is it controlled that, regarding the already abusive that has crept into the application in recent months, now they also have to deal with false profiles or those interested in other things very different from love, sex and personal connections of all kinds.Wow, you come to flirt and meet people and you find yourself with an extremely commercial application. Full of and payment services.
The good thing, for those who decide to discuss their professional careers here or seek extra income, is precisely that the audience is always there. And it is that, although there are profiles that enter only to see messages received, or to gossip slightly about the area through which they pass, many others are always aware of what is happening on the social network. Something that means that, either out of fever or boredom, they go through the professional profile created. Potential public who knows that they will not be able to demand a high quality service because, most likely, it is a cheaper service than normal. And who knows, maybe after looking at a job profile so much he even asks to see what it offers…
A relatively untenable situation.And it is that, if those responsible for Grindr do nothing (the application is currently in the hands of a Chinese company), everything indicates that users will end up choosing to use other alternatives. Where the is not so abusive, where there is control over the profiles or even where they are taking advantage of this situation to offer a free year of their paid services to attract more users. The latter is the case of Scruff, whose profiles and possibilities are broader than on Grindr, but which has always remained an application for secondary use, more fetishistic and segmented. Now it is not so difficult to find the same profiles of the area on Grindr and on Scruff. It will be necessary to see if these situations do not cause the cancellation of these users of the first one.
At the moment there is no need to choose, and even more so when you can find affordable sex, love and services in the same application. A very Chinese concept, on the other hand, but one that seems to be upsetting many users.It's good for a laugh, but when you're serious about meeting new people, constantly having to shut down or spend your blocks making fake profiles disappear it loses all meaning
