Finding one’s community is important to adolescent development. The people of that community create area for relationships to cultivate.

That community is found on dating apps meant for adult gay men — apps that only require a user enter a birth date that coincides with the site’s legal terms of service for some teens.

A Northwestern that is new medicine (posted when you look at the Journal of Adolescent Health) unearthed that a lot more than 50 % of intimately active homosexual and bisexual men many years 14 to 17 usage relationship (also called hook-up) apps like Grindr (21+) and Scruff (18+) to get brand brand new buddies and boyfriends.

Data had been collected through internet surveys taken by 200 intimately experienced teenagers in the us and may be the first known research on the subject.

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