Men on Tinder think they have a "licence to use women as they see fit" if their date's appearance is less attractive than her profile photograph, research says. The British Sociological Association's annual conference in Birmingham was told today that the men believed they were entitled to have casual sex to compensate for the 'breach of trust'.
Dr Jenny van Hooff, senior lecturer in sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, carried out a study of the use of Tinder among men in Manchester and Cheshire. She told the conference: "Many of our respondents felt let down on meeting a woman and on feeling a visual representation hadn't been accurate. A year-old man told her: "I've been very misled by very selective pictures, angles when the person isn't as attractive or as slim or sporty as they make out on pictures.
I try to swerve if possible, or get something out of it. One year-old man said: "'I am looking for a long term relationship, but you know within seconds of meeting someone whether that's going to happen.
So now, I think if there's a chance of a shag I'll take it. Lots of girls put 'no one-night stands' on their profiles, but they still end up having them. Tinder has really toughened me up. A year-old told her: "What I will say is that it is natural for human beings to take advantage of each other, and Tinder hasn't changed this, but it has made it easier.
One year-old man said: "It's Tinder β I would say your chances of getting sex go up if a girl's lied on her profile. A year-old man said: "I went to meet her in a bar in the Northern Quarter and I could see that she was really fat. If it had been the kind of bar where I could have left without her seeing me, I would have done, but I was stuck there. Dr van Hooff, who worked with fellow Manchester Metropolitan sociologist Professor Steve Miles on the research, told the conference that: "We wanted to find out how Tinder affected the nature of our participants' relationships and intimacies.
