Now that hookup culture has collided with dating appsโTinder, Hinge, Happn, etc. As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twenty-somethings aren't liking what they see. I t's a balmy night in Manhattan's financial district, and at a sports bar called Stout, everyone is Tindering. The tables are filled with young women and men who've been chasing money and deals on Wall Street all day, and now they're out looking for hookups. Everyone is drinking, peering into their screens and swiping on the faces of strangers they may have sex with later that evening.
Or not. Her friends smirk, not looking up. At a booth in the back, three handsome twenty-something guys in button-downs are having beers. When asked if they've been arranging dates on the apps they've been swiping at, all say not one date, but two or three: "You can't be stuck in one lane There's always something better.
You could talk to two or three girls at a bar and pick the best one, or you can swipe a couple hundred people a dayโthe sample size is so much larger. It's setting up two or three Tinder dates a week and, chances are, sleeping with all of them, so you could rack up girls you've slept with in a year. He says that he himself has slept with five different women he met on Tinderโ "Tinderellas," the guys call themโin the last eight days.
Dan and Marty, also Alex's roommates in a shiny high-rise apartment building near Wall Street, can vouch for that. In fact, they can remember whom Alex has slept with in the past week more readily than he can.
Asked what these women are like, he shrugs. Works at J. Crew; senior at Parsons; junior at Pace; works in finance And yet a lack of an intimate knowledge of his potential sex partners never presents him with an obstacle to physical intimacy, Alex says. Alex, his friends agree, is a Tinder King, a young man of such deft "text game"โ"That's the ability to actually convince someone to do something over text," Marty explainsโthat he is able to entice young women into his bed on the basis of a few text exchanges, while letting them know up front he is not interested in having a relationship.
