On Grindr you’re an object, like picking clothes online

For Lewis, connection applications such as Grindr have presented a way to explore gay culture, which was missing in the cultivation of rural Dumfriesshire.

At first, he loved the excitement of ordinary sexual encounters in a phone shift, but soon became addictive.

“When people texting you and hit you, you get this dopamine kick, this is a pleasant, but that’s the problem, or he says.

Lewis said he started to harm self -esteem and found that he found it when he was chasing confirmation – he equalized his value with his body.

He says that their low moods often return to a cycle of rapid sexual encounters, which often feel “dirty and gross”, which fuels worry and depression.

“You are an object of them like buying clothes in Asos in Grindr, or he says.

Grindr, a social networking application for the GBTQ community, is the largest application of its kind and now has approximately 15 million active monthly users.

Many homosexual and heterosexual people also use other applications for attachment.

While some like it, and don’t think twice, others think it was a deeper problem, and it has become a quick way for satisfaction, and normalizes easy access to gender.

For Lewis, it was difficult to establish more meaningful connections beyond sexual ties in a world where many young homosexual men focused on something.

“Just when you don’t want it, you feel the strange one, or he says.

Jacob Alon is a future singer who plays Glastonbury this summer and is compared with Nick Drake, the folk legend of the 70s.

Alon’s songs are often sensitive, but in homosexual attachment applications, foreigners also struggle with issues such as ordinary sex.

One of the most popular songs 25 -year -old – Liquid Gold 25 – ends with avoidance: “This place is dying.”

Alon, “I wrote this song after a series of connections that make me feel quite empty and broken in Grindr.” BBC Description Documentary Should We Should We Connect?.

“It could be very fun,” the Scottish singer says.

“But there is definitely a culture that can be quite toxic.”

Alon, who uses them/pronouns, says they meet random foreigners in a park in the middle of the night and put themselves in risky situations.

“These people could have hurt me very easily and nobody knew,” they say.

“They did things I didn’t want to do and they didn’t listen to me when I told them not to tell them.”

The culture of connection in the homosexual community has deep roots, based on a time where gay relationships between men should remain confidential.

Gay actions became legal only in the UK and Wales in 1967, and for more than ten years, Scotland was followed by the case.

Today, the culture of attachment means that sex is available in your pocket with only one scroll in your pocket.

Glasgow did not claim that Grindr was for attachment in a bar in Glasgow, Findtan, Kip and James.

“Very superficial,” says the 23 -year -old Fidtan.

“Everyone has three photos or maybe a picture. Nine times, 10 of them are shirts.”

30 -year -old Kip says that he has no intention of making a real connection with someone in his swaps.

“There was no ‘wine and gossip’,” he says. “Let’s pull the Knickers down, let’s get to him.”

But Kip says that this is not always a great experience.

“Sometimes I went and thought: ‘This was very hot, I’m very wonderful’.

“But when you leave, there are other times, and 07:00 and people will work and tremble, you feel dirty and grieving.”

In response to the BBC documentary, a Grindr spokesman said: “Every day we take the responsibility of being a platform used by millions of LGBTQ+ people and we are determined to support their welfare in every form.”