From the BZ editorial team
Erotic reporter Jack Horner is back in single life … In search of an affair, he recently registered with the dating portal “Tinder” – and shortly thereafter left again. Read why in his new column.
The year started so promisingly. I, the erotic reporter, had found a woman with whom I dreamed of a kind of infinity after months of a life of depravity with numerous affairs and the feeling of being pretty burned out. We met in my supermarket. But this dream ended abruptly. Why should remain unmentioned at this point. I’ll talk about that at a later date, when the wounds – even if it sounds trite – have healed…
After days, evenings and especially nights of lethargy, something had to be done. So I signed up for the Tinder dating site. Many friends had had good experiences there. While not one found a lasting relationship (obviously that’s not what they’re about either), at least they met some exciting women online for one-night stands or even longer affairs. And that’s exactly what I was looking for after my dramatic love-off.
To make it short: I unsubscribed from this portal after just one month. Why? Because I had a lot of so-called matches – i.e. mutual interest between man and woman – but in the end there was only one very disappointing meeting. It was so unspectacular that a more detailed description makes no sense here.
Again and again I was clicked on again by quite attractive women (and men). But the chats – and I’m really eloquent and anything but clumsy with text messages – were usually not answered at all, but the matches were canceled again. Unusual.
At least a short exchange would be normal if there really is someone sitting at the other end of the internet and interested in flirts and more… Were those just fake profiles in the end? Not clear!
On the other hand, it became clear to me in other cases. Here, for example: I really liked a young woman – she originally comes from Asia, as she wrote. We wrote for a while. Supposedly she now lived in Berlin. But before we could meet, I should first call her – on a number abroad. A cost trap, as I found out when researching on the Internet. I blocked the profile and reported it to Tinder.
Over the next few days, as I scrolled through new profiles, I kept coming across images of this Asian beauty. Always with a different name and with different age and location information.
It was only by accident that I finally found out that the photos apparently show an Asian model. Someone had apparently downloaded the photos and was now posing as this woman. What a crappy scam.
That was the final stroke for me. There may well be many women and men on this portal who are real and are looking for real contact. But I just don’t have the time to filter truth and fake from each other.
Then get back to real life. That’s my plan for the next days and especially nights. And I’ll be reporting on that here soon.