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Back on the Prowl With Sniffies
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While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will transport on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the 1918 pandemic, a swift scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a entire roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a recent hookup website (that’s website, not app) has prepared itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.
Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken endorse to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a inhabit updated GPS map. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so common on the traditio
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Grindr
“You gay bro?”
“Nah just here to network”
Who’s on it? Lots of people. Grindr is international, and guys use it to network and chat as often as they use it to actually facilitate a hook up. At the very least it’s a great way to figure out if that guy at the gym is gay or not.
Best for? Scoping out the scene in a new town, flirting for weeks with someone you’ll never meet, getting catfished.
Downsides? Upgrading to Grindr Unlimited is a jaw dropping TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE DOLLARS per year, funds which could alternatively go towards...I don’t know a plane ticket somewhere cool? Like, 75 separate OnlyFans subscriptions? A very welcome donation to the philanthropy of your choice?
Sniffies
“looking?”
“yeah”
“come over”
Who’s on it? Sniffies is a beautiful mixed crowd. DL, bi, married, and curious guys are drawn to Sniffies because it’s effortless to be as anonymous as they’d like. It’s also easy to discover glory holes and cruising locales for a quick hang up. Kinksters and horndogs are
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How Sniffies Saved Cruising
“Is this a Grindr thing?”
A woman answers her door in curlers. The bloke knocking tries to explain: He’s supposed to be meeting up with someone from a, uh, “guy on guy” ad. He’s been given the wrong speak to, apparently, and his intended “guy”—one who advertised himself as having a penchant for being on the receiving end of many other guys—is instead a bewildered woman with no intention of hosting. To add to the confusion, the “Grindr thing” was actually a botched rendezvous facilitated by something called … Sniffies. This cringetastic interaction—which the lady in curlers filmed—now has over 7 million views on TikTok. And understandably, it has prompted the unenlightened commentariat to inquire: What the fuck is Sniffies?
Today, Sniffies is a web-based app for men looking for sex with other men, often in public spaces—what traditionalists would phone “cruising.” The site actually started as an underwear trading platform, but in 2018, founder Blake Gallagher repurposed the website into a literal heat map for men of the liking-men persuasion.* Manhattan, for example, appears as a blue city grid speckled with circles: Some are profiles of cruisers, whi