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I still remember my first online dating experience. The awkward, almost mentally contorting, experience of sitting across from a girl that didn’t exactly reflect her posted-pictures. She claimed herself a non-smoker, but unabashedly excused herself for a “cig” mid-dinner. I also suspected she had a tumultuous relationship with a guy and that this online date experience was the extent of her revenge.

Adult dating found its way into our lives because traditional online dating failed us early. That’s not to say that traditional, mainstream dating is a failure. Far from it. Online dating as a whole evolved over the years and the products have blossomed into go-to destinations for meeting new people – particularly during a time of social distancing and fewer bar experiences.

Hookup sites grew out of people’s annoyances with too many failed dating experiences. Just because she “likes hiking,” doesn’t mean she is the right person for me (or you). Heck, maybe she’s not for anyone. She probably hates the outdoors.

Hookup Sites Came When We Needed Them Most

Hookup sites cured what ailed us. It was simple, you either were looking for shallow, no-strings-attached sex, or you weren’t. You either wanted to hookup with the girl with mid-sized breasts or the chubby guy with a beard or you did not.

Adult dating cut out the complications and focused on more digestible, primal connection points we all could agree on. Of course, adult dating was and remains somewhat taboo. But that doesn’t make it any less viable and valuable.

Adult dating used to be simple. You wanted sex, you sought sex, you probably got sex after about ten shoddy, poorly written, desperate in veiled tone, messages. But now adult dating sites are leveling up as a result of increased competition.

Need you look any further than the best hookup sites, as reported by Free Adult’s ranking list (who knows how accurate it is, but we are gonna roll with it) to find a compelling, sometimes bizarre list of fetish hookup dating sites. I can save you a click, if you like (hey, don’t feel bad if you clicked anyways, I look at porn hookup sites myself).

There’s a site just for dating people who love handjobs. The site is a blend of handjob hookup site and handjob education. I thought handjobs were the basement sex act that we tolerated when a girl just didn’t want to go too, too far?

There is shemale dating, and tranny hookup sites. Are those even PC names? Me thinks not, but rest assured, it seems that in the world of hookup sites, no one’s monitoring brand compliance with political correctness initiatives.

There’s a black fuckbook site. When you look deeper, this site’s hookup premise revolves around white dudes scoring “horny ebony girls,” as the site’s marketing copy mentions relentlessly.

What Hookup Sites Lack In Bells and Whistles, They Gain In Consumer Trust

Adult dating is a bizarro world, but as mentioned earlier, it’s all explainable. Traditional dating was once so simple that the frauds inundated the platforms. Now, as a way to combat mismatch syndrome, traditional dating platforms leverage wildly complex and nearly irrational matchmaker algorithms.

In other words, AI is tasked with finding out who you should marry and conceive children with. For many, that’s just too heavy. Case and point, eHarmony’s algorithm has come under fire countless times. In reality, it seems eHarmony rejects as many or more singles than it accepts.

Some people just don’t want the heavy experience of a traditional dating site. But they also don’t want to dip their toes in a pool filled to the rim with raucous, slobbering singles like you find on a massive, non-fetish hookup site like Fuckbook.

Hookup sites like the ones mentioned above, even though they are all rated as some of the best, are often ugly as sin. It’s as if designers don’t even try to lure in new members. But that’s just more evidence of my argument. The lack of design screams “this is simple, find a hookup and be on your way” mentality. It’s obvious that an algorithm isn’t looking to match you up with the best handjob pairing. You can figure that on your own, unless you need a hand from me (hey, I had to).

I hope none of this seems as if I’m applying some circus, freak show status to fetish hookup sites. Quite the contrary. Sure, some of it seems odd to me given the fetishes. Beyond BDSM, the fetish world feels so foreign to me. Not to say that I’m into gags or spankings, unless I’ve been a bad, bad boy. I’m more saying that we’ve all gotten used to the basic fetishes, BDSM being one of them.

Hookup sites and their fetish evolution now embeds itself in a general online dating world’s ecosystem of competitive growth. We are seeing more and more what people desire in online dating on all fronts by where they place their clicks, where they input their email, and what they say on review forums.

Whatever the case, I for one am excited, maybe even admittedly a little aroused, by the future of online dating. Why am I suddenly interested in handjobs after 20 years? Maybe I should…. Eh, let’s not talk about that out loud.

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