I’m not sure when the first apps began to appear that made websites obsolete and geographic whoring so much easier. You could find a site for muscle only, bears, twinks, bareback sex, older daddies, and so on. It wasn’t long until there were more online dating sites than you could count, and the commodification of desire began.
We were lovers for two years and remain best friends to this day. We met about a month later when he returned - and oh how predictable - after dinner I brought him home and fucked his brains out (this time with condoms and water-based lube). I started talking to a sexy younger man who was in Poland on vacation, but lived just outside of Toronto. I needed to find out if this online site was in any way a threat to our telephony dating service. In the summer of 2000 I brought home the company laptop to do “research” on gay.com. Many other companies birthed to do the same, and I managed such a system for gay men called Cruiseline, in my role of Audiotext Director at Pink Triangle Press from 1997 to 2004. Soon after they launch one of the first telephone dating personals systems. There were some smart business people in that company and they realized the opportunity.
