A recent study identified six primary reasons people use Tinder. Love came third. Guess what was first?
It’s not sex, if that’s what you were thinking.
It’s ‘the thrill of excitement.’ Casual sex was fifth on the list. Either our preconceptions about Tinder are wrong, or a lot of people are lying.
The research showed one interesting thing – that the people who were looking for love were far more likely to actually meet a match than people looking for casual sex. (Incidentally, people who said they were looking to meet people and make friends almost never actually meet people.)
Despite love being the more important motivation than sex, research also showed that people who use Tinder are more likely to have risk-taking sex (like unprotected sex, or drug taking) than those who don’t use it.
64% of Tinder users know someone in an exclusive relationship who also use Tinder.
There’s a flaw in the study though. If the premise is, ‘do you use Tinder for love, or sex?’ then it misses out on a central truth: love and sex are not mutually exclusive. In fact, one can lead to the other, and vice versa.
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