Antisocial networks?

The commodification of sex in Manhattan is a truth of the place. Put so many people on a tiny island and some aspects of life just become...expected.

Nowhere is this as true as with gay men.

But when online hook-up websites (Manhunt, Grindr, craigslist, findfred...the list goes on) make finding sex as easy as ordering take out and become normalized, it stunts the development of healthy sexuality as a whole.

Maybe it is the anthropologist in me talking, but with the availability of sex 24/7, the proclivity of gay men toward multiple partners, rising drug use and the arrival of a new generation of millennials that grew up during the Bush years where abstinence only sex education programs deprived them of the importance of safe sex, there is a scary convergence of dangerous components out there that all point to the rise of sexually transmitted diseases.

Add to the fact that most of the men that are out there are emotionally undeveloped? Prospects are not so good.

Ugh. Talk about depressing... how is a single gay man supposed to navigate this minefield?

Very carefully.