Nicht nur GayRomeo und Gaydar stehen in der Kritik. Vor kurzem "traf" es Manhunt bei Out.com. In einem dreiseitigem, englischen Artikel "Has Manhunt Destroyed Gay Culture?" beleuchtet der Autor die Auswirkungen der Kontaktbörse auf die schwule Lebenswirklichkeit. Manhunt ist eine schwule Kontaktbörse, welche seit 2002 existiert, hauptsächlich für die Vermittlung des schnellen Sex genutzt wird und sich in Amerika besonders in den letzten Jahren immer größerer Beliebtheit erfreut. Wie ich gerade sehe, hat die Seite seit kurzem eine deutsche Oberfläche.

Ich hoffe dein Englisch ist nicht zu stark eingerostet - ein paar Auszüge:

“If you were asked to design the perfect weapon to exploit our vulnerability as it manifests itself in attractive, urban gay men, you’d want something that would intensify our isolation, exaggerate our propensity to objectify each other, and persuade us to objectify ourselves -- by encouraging us to believe that our purpose is to look good and have lots of sex. Manhunt would be your perfect weapon"

"We’re gay, this is our culture, Manhunt is the 21st-century gay bar, and you can’t stop progress. Besides, every fuck, we rationalized, was another chance to find a boyfriend. Yet the more we did this, the fainter grew the hope of finding something more meaningful than a hookup. As our hopes faded, we learned to see one another, and finally even ourselves, as things”.

“The seemingly endless stream of available men on Manhunt is, according to marketing director Henricks, “addictive, like a slot machine. You keep hitting next, to see another screen of profiles, thinking you’re gonna get lucky sevens.” This drive, according to Alan Downs, a psychologist and author of The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World, lies at the core of the appeal of online cruising: “Variable payout schedule, which is used in slot machine designs, is the most addictive form of psychological conditioning, because you never know when you’ll get paid. It could be every 10 times you play, or every hundred.” In the same way, Downs adds, “every time you log on, you never know what you’ll find. That’s why it expands to fill a person’s time. Last night was a bust, but who knows who will be online this morning or tonight.”