It’s fairly easy to explain, I’ve brought this up to gay friends for years. You’re at the center of a unit circle of radius one kilometer, D is the population density of candidates. The number of candidates to meet in that unit circle is roughly π * D. The number of candidates two kilometers out is 4 * π * D etc. The candidate pool grows exponentially up to the point where population density drops off. However the ability to meet physically also drops off, probably e^-KD function -people one kilometer away are easier to meet than 20 kilometers away.
When you go out, the candidate pool is in a radius of 10 m but much easier to physically meet.A neighbor or friend perhaps 100m, slightly more difficult to meet. Each mode has its radius, and candidate pool.
The problem with gay “dating” apps (e.g. meeting for sex) is the candidate pool size and distance. You could easily chat for hours with people you will never meet, which ends up “blocking” you from people you would meet. While the candidate pool is huge, time wasting is stupendous and you end up chatting instead of getting naked. I have attractive, horny friends who spend way too much time chatting with men 2000 miles away. I note that my friends get laid more often going to bars or dinners than apps now.
It’s the best protection against STD’s I’ve ever seen.
When shopping with credit cards, money isn’t as real as with cash. It’s easy to bust a budget. When cruising on apps for “dating” (so euphemistic) distance has the same irreality. It’s equiprobable to meet someone from Sydney, Sheffield, or Stuttgart, São Paulo, San Diego or Seattle if you are just focusing on some feature of interest instead of distance. For the “traveling salesman” or sailor, you have a date in every city, a trick in every port. To meet for an eduring physical relationship off-net it will be seen to be increasingly difficult as D rises and R rises. People chat instead of fuck, to be blunt and you meet more and more unreachable people. I’ve used internet to meet men since around 1981/2 first on Usenet, when internet was briefly Darpanet and Arpanet.
Another strange by-product of internet gay “Dating” is a vast world-comparison of male anatomies. There’s a peculiar issue with height and, well, “length” in the US compared to Western Europe. I’ll have fo write more on the Height - Length - Width problem someday.
It’s fairly easy to explain, I’ve brought this up to gay friends for years. You’re at the center of a unit circle of radius one kilometer, D is the population density of candidates. The number of candidates to meet in that unit circle is roughly π * D. The number of candidates two kilometers out is 4 * π * D etc. The candidate pool grows exponentially up to the point where population density drops off. However the ability to meet physically also drops off, probably e^-KD function -people one kilometer away are easier to meet than 20 kilometers away.
When you go out, the candidate pool is in a radius of 10 m but much easier to physically meet.A neighbor or friend perhaps 100m, slightly more difficult to meet. Each mode has its radius, and candidate pool.
The problem with gay “dating” apps (e.g. meeting for sex) is the candidate pool size and distance. You could easily chat for hours with people you will never meet, which ends up “blocking” you from people you would meet. While the candidate pool is huge, time wasting is stupendous and you end up chatting instead of getting naked. I have attractive, horny friends who spend way too much time chatting with men 2000 miles away. I note that my friends get laid more often going to bars or dinners than apps now.
It’s the best protection against STD’s I’ve ever seen.
Ha - interesting! I hadn't thought about it that way before, but it does make sense.
When shopping with credit cards, money isn’t as real as with cash. It’s easy to bust a budget. When cruising on apps for “dating” (so euphemistic) distance has the same irreality. It’s equiprobable to meet someone from Sydney, Sheffield, or Stuttgart, São Paulo, San Diego or Seattle if you are just focusing on some feature of interest instead of distance. For the “traveling salesman” or sailor, you have a date in every city, a trick in every port. To meet for an eduring physical relationship off-net it will be seen to be increasingly difficult as D rises and R rises. People chat instead of fuck, to be blunt and you meet more and more unreachable people. I’ve used internet to meet men since around 1981/2 first on Usenet, when internet was briefly Darpanet and Arpanet.
Another strange by-product of internet gay “Dating” is a vast world-comparison of male anatomies. There’s a peculiar issue with height and, well, “length” in the US compared to Western Europe. I’ll have fo write more on the Height - Length - Width problem someday.