"After just two years, it was attracting more than 1 billion visits a day, with 90 percent of users being young adults. Tinder arrived with seductive hype. Forget sexual caution. Forget getting to know people in all their psychological complexity. Just join, tap, and get ready to undress. On social media, breathless users declared how easy it was to meet prospective sex partners, and that after a drink or three, sex was almost guaranteed."
"Researchers at several universities, including Stanford, obtained data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Launched in 1973 by the National Center for Health Statistics, the NSFG now involves an ongoing combination of surveys and face-to-face interviews dealing with a huge variety of subjects administered to tens of thousands of Americans aged 15 to 49. Participants include a representative cross-section of this age group."
Tinder launched in 2012 and rapidly became a mass phenomenon, drawing a largely young-adult user base and inspiring many other hookup apps. Popular perceptions presented the apps as enabling easy, immediate sex after minimal interaction. Researchers from several universities, including Stanford, analyzed data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), a long-running national survey of Americans aged 15 to 49. Among 11,225 respondents, 757 reported using hookup apps to pursue casual sex; users mirrored the population gender split at roughly 50 percent men and 50 percent women. App users reported more sexual partners but not greater overall sexual frequency, and apps appear to facilitate traditional dating more than one-night flings.
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