Do you remember in the early-2000s when online dating sites began to pop up? Match was officially the first online dating site in the world. But for many of us, Plenty of Fish might have been our first online dating encounter. Match eventually bought Plenty of Fish.
Some of us used Plenty of Fish in secret. This was because at the time, it was a bit taboo to admit you used online dating. At the time, people viewed those using online dating as desperate. When you used online dating sites, you were thought unattractive, uncharismatic, and unsuccessful.
But absurdly, millions of people who spread these false pretenses also secretly signed up for online dating sites. This is because online dating made complete sense. You spent less money, you didn’t have to deal with all the bar hoopla, and you could discover more matches.
The hypocrisy in online dating was palatable.
But as years went on, mainstream online dating surged and eventually, the original baggage got lost along the way. Now it is completely socially acceptable to chill at home browsing for dating partners.
Like anything mainstream, an adult version is always waiting in the wings. And that’s how Fuckbook came along and prompted a more adult online dating experience. Let’s keep things real, Craigslist was probably the first adult online dating experience. But Fuckbook is the first to just openly embrace the idea.
Just like in mainstream dating, adult dating sectioned itself off into niche experiences. For example, Anal Sex is a dating site. The AnalSex.com domain is one of the most valuable in the world and today it is used as a simple adult niche dating site. That should tell you just about everything you need to know.
Fuckbook and other big adult dating sites have these niches. They are general dating sites, so that’s to be expected. But using niche adult dating sites means less of what you don’t want to sift through. Just like using a biker dating site to find people interested in bikers, you use AnalSex.com to find people interested in anal sex. If you’re a biker who likes anal sex, well then (I’m not going there).
But niche adult dating certainly has helped connect more and more likeminded folks.
Alas, the point of this article.
To be honest, I’ve already made the point. At one time, mainstream dating was considered taboo. But then people began accepting that online dating made more sense. It’s the same thing in the hookup dating world. It makes more sense. People know it. And now more people are standing up and openly admitting that it makes more sense.
Now, the hookup nature of an adult site will always place a ceiling on how many people “publicly admit” they use these sites. This is because the hookup lifestyle in general isn’t something we brag about in our modern culture. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t using hookup sites, we just aren’t talking about it as much.