Posted on 01/22/2015 12:41:19 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent nearly a half a million dollars studying gay hookup apps such as Grindr.
The government awarded $432,000 to Columbia University to interview gay men who use GPS dating apps and determine whether it increases their likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior.
“Smartphone technologies have provided a new venue for sexual partnering among men who have sex with men (MSM),” the grant for the project states. “Indeed, there are a rapidly growing number of smartphone applications designed to facilitate sexual partnering among MSM.”
The project argues that dating apps that use the Global Positioning System, or GPS, has “accelerated” the rate that gay men can find sexual partners, compared to online.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Does this app furnish the GPS coordinates of every rest stop and public library bathroom in the US?
Fabulous
Well, that would explain the horde of geochachers that insist that they have the GPS coordinates to my anus and there there’s gold nuggets up there. Not that I’ve actually checked myself...
I thought the exact same thing.
Obama may have personally requested an earmark for this study. /S
Well, they’ve already spent $3 million on a study to determine why Lesbians are fat, so this is a logical next step.
naw thats just walkingaround or bathhouse money
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