An Inventory

Things grindr has incidentally taught me I don't like; 

Too much cologne

(there's no easy blame for excessive use of the the above. I think personal hygiene can often be clutched at with neurotic gusto as a means of allaying social anxieties, and things like fragrances resorted to with irrational talismanic reverence. I'm personally quite lax about such things, within reason. Anyway, a recent hookup left me with a metal-taste that seeped into my sinuses and bed sheets with pesky resilience. Yuck).

Guys with an aversion to body hair

(I know I said I'm fine with an openness about physical preferences, and that I even support the potentially demeaning conveyance of these on grindr, but seriously; no body hair? That's just fucking weird. I'm talking about the painstaking cosmetic removal of body hair, not its natural absence, and then the insistence of sexual partners doing the same. Is it an an inter-species trans-humanism thing, denying the human body's natural defences?).

Flakes/time-wasters

(If I wanted to pic-swap I'd watch porn. I came here to fuck! Also, hosting is give and take).

Prime example of a time-waster;

Had a guy come up to my apartment and after four flights of stairs he realised he'd left his inhaler at home. He left mine with a nearly blue face, and I haven't seen him since. I hope he made it. 

Also, some of the hottest guys on grindr speak minimal English. I might have to become an arm-chair polyglot (yes, I'm aware I'm reading grindr like it's amazon.com). But seriously, it's a great way of meeting travellers, drifters, and other deliciously untethered beauties for sex that's no less passionate for its momentariness. You never know when that person might cross paths with you again, the world is an open playing field and ones genitals a glaring beacon. 

A thread with the various European boys I've bedded lately is their dissatisfaction with Auckland. 'Expensive and boring' is the verdict. I'm fenced on this, expensive yes but being from a small town I'm yet to be jaded by the city's comparative perks. I'd like to think I can be content anywhere.

 Grindr certainly helps. 

(And is it true parks lower regional suicide rates? I wonder if that's true of most public spaces, libraries for example).