Hookups 2023: Who, Where, and How? Sniffies Reveals All!
Gay hookup app Sniffies, not to be outdone by year-end summaries offered by Grindr and Pornhub, revealed the cities, kinks, positions, and more that have registered on our collective gaydar.
The app, founded in 2018, dropped a load of datasets, including the world's "Horniest Country" and "Horniest City," what its users found to be the "Most Valuable Kinks" and "Most Valuable Position," and more.
The app came into play most often in the UK. Correspondingly, the city of London — capital of England — was dubbed the "Rookie of the Year," as use of the app grew by nearly 50% there compared to 2022.
With the "Where" sorted, the next obvious question is "What" — as in, what are the app's users getting up to? The "Mot Valuable Position" of the year, as indicated by the app's users, turns out to be "Vers," and not just by a nose; "Vers" topped the other options by a healthy margin, outstripping both "Top" and "Bottom" by a good 10%.
The "Kinks" column saw "cum play," "groups," and "facials" register in the top 5, along with porn, but users preferred to hone their edging skills over everything else.
Another fun fact: It was Boston, in the heart of Puritanical New England, that saw the biggest assembly for a "group action," with 204 users checking into the "largest single group" this year.
All about the cruising, Sniffies is not the app you go to in order to find a lifetime connection, or even to swap names; rather, the app proves the skinny on need-to-know details about places to meet (where is there a circle jerk? Is there a glory hole at Venue X?), and the app helpfully provided its results for top cruising grounds (parks ranked #1; restrooms came in second; the gym trailed behind "residential buildings," and "university" rounded out the top five).
When it comes to the habitués of those places, the details turn on subjects like whether they are straight but curious (2023 saw the number of self-reported straight users skyrocket by nearly 300%) and, perhaps more to the point, what they are packing ("Cruisers" on the app averaged 6.7 inches, if the data is to be believed).
Even so, the denizens of Philadelphia found plenty to talk about about, with the City of Brotherly Love being Ground Zero for most messages sent on the app over the course of the year.
Okay, so what about "When?" The data pointed to the first day of the work week as peak user time; obviously, Mondays don't get these fellows down. Just as obviously, though, "when" can also be any time at all, since apps offer a 24/7 window of opportunity.
What will 2024 bring?