Related: Reporter Uses Grindr To Uncover Tons Of Gay Men At Right-Wing CPAC Gathering Perhaps the most shocking statistic is the last, that 71% of gay men who used a dating app experienced some kind of long-term sexual relationship on it.

Given the high rate of men who meet up but don’t have sex (45%) and the number of men who lie about their age, heigh or weight (31%), it seems like three-fourths of gay men looking for — and finding — love on hookup apps is an awfully high number.

Living in an anti-Black world, it is easy to internalize these sentiments from a very young age and begin to hate different aspects of ourselves.

So, as Black queer men, we have male privilege that largely provides us with protection from things like the gender-based violence women face every day.Men on gay dating apps often send complete strangers pictures of their penis in an attempt to meet and possibly have sex, a not-at-all-shocking new infographic by Grab Him confirms.According to their statistics, which come from a survey of nearly 4,000 gay men aged 18-65, a majority of gay men looking for sex online also won’t discriminate against an HIV partner or lie about the size of their dick.It’s pointless to try and argue the validity of apps like Grindr and Scruff in today’s gay culture.Whether we like it or not, social media is on a fast track to being the primary way in which we communicate with one another.