By Aaron Smith and Maeve Duggan One in ten Americans have used an online dating site or mobile dating app themselves, and many people now know someone else who uses online dating or who has found a spouse or long-term partner via online dating. General public attitudes towards online dating have become much more positive in recent years, and social networking sites are now playing a prominent role when it comes to navigating and documenting romantic relationships.

Online dating is also relatively popular among the college-educated, as well as among urban and suburban residents. Attitudes towards online dating are becoming more positive over time Even today, online dating is not universally seen as a positive activity—a significant minority of the public views online dating skeptically. At the same time, public attitudes towards online dating have grown more positive in the last eight years: In general, online daters themselves give the experience high marks.

Dating services are not created equal. They each cater to a different (and sometimes unsavory) type of people. But no matter what niche a dating service has, or how distinguished it is, there will.

We reported casual sex and condom use among college students. Abstract Objective This study aims to explore the association between using smartphone dating applications apps and having unprotected sex with a casual sex partner. Study design This is a cross-sectional study. Students were recruited from four university campuses in Hong Kong by convenience sampling.

Main outcome measures Subjects completed a structured questionnaire asking about the use of dating apps, sexual history and socio-demographic information. Multiple logistic regressions were used to explore the association between using dating apps and having unprotected sex with a casual sex partner. Results Six hundred and sixty-six subjects were included in the analysis.

Users of dating apps were more likely to have had unprotected sex with a casual sex partner the last time they engaged in sexual intercourse aOR: Using dating apps for more than 12 months was associated with having a casual sex partner in the last sexual intercourse aOR: Conclusion We found a robust association between using dating apps and having unprotected sex with a casual sex partner, implying that using dating apps is an emerging sexual risk factor.

We recommend that interventions promoting the safe use of dating apps should be implemented.