Swiping Left on STIs
Tinder executives didn’t swipe right on billboards outside their office last fall. They didn’t “super like” the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s (AHF) campaign, depicting two silhouetted couples — Tinder facing chlamydia, and Grindr nose to nose with gonorrhea. “FreeSTDcheck.org” lay boldly scrawled next to...
Swiping Past the Small-Talk
I have witnessed my friend play the game of swiping left or right for potential dates again and again. From afar, I judged the dating app Tinder to be superficial.