A recent study has revealed that a dating app among LGBTQ community is boosting weight stigmas. That is, men are becoming more and more confused about their weight and body shape. Due to this they are suffering from a kind of mental pressure. This study was done at the University of New Waterloo. Research has revealed that according to the statistics, three out of every four homosexual men use this app and are worried about their body and weight.
The Grindr app is quite popular among gay people. According to lead author Erick Phillis of recent research keeping this app in mind, ‘dating apps have skyrocketed in the past decade. The special thing is that the way they meet each other has changed radically. But during our research, we were surprised to find that a large number of people using this app due to their increased weight or looks start to underestimate themselves about their weight. ‘
Erick further adds, for example the Grindr app allows anonymity when registering itself compared to other apps and you have to fill your body details. Such as Large, Abrased, toned, muscular, slim and stoic. Our research revealed that most people, while filling such details, consider themselves to be overweight and suffer from some kind of disease or smallness. This has an effect on their sex life and according to their body weight and body shape, they start getting worried about whether they will be able to perform properly during sex and intercourse.
The study also revealed that not only do gay people suffer from inferiority complex about weight and look, but they also start feeling dissatisfied about their body. In this case, Grindr does not just help that it connects its users to dating and sex partners. Rather, it also creates concern in the minds of people regarding their physical appearance. While this depends largely on the culture of the candidate. That is, where does he live. But while searching for companions on this app, candidates start comparing their looks and appearances with their expected partners and fall prey to weight stigmas.
In this research, thirteen participants from several cities in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as surrounding municipalities, participated in the study, Irick explains, which appeared in the journal Image. On the other hand, innumerable protective factors and forced participants to imitate suggested that we should be helped to reduce the harmful effects of grinders on body shape. However, there is still much work to be done in this research because we still have little information about how dating apps affect the physical perceptions of trans and gender-non-forming people.
