The Struggles of Online Dating Sites When You’re Poly

It is all good until somebody spots you on Bumble and assumes you are cheating on your own partner.

Stephanie (left) and her partner Bert are in a poly relationship and came across on a app called Pure. Photo submitted

This article initially showed up on VICE Canada.

You might have wondered what it’s like for polyamorous people on dating apps if you’ve ever seen a couple “seeking a third” on Tinder. Though it’s feasible that couple you saw had been “unicorn hunters” (a controversial descriptor talking about partners searching for a girl to own intercourse with), there are several poly individuals in varying types of relationship plans looking for intercourse, love, both, and sometimes even just relationship online.br /

Though some web web web sites, such as for instance OkCupid, have features which have made poly individuals feel much more comfortable and welcomed, there’s at the least one major site that is dating outright rejects hitched individuals from signing up—Plenty of Fish—and advises they join the once-hacked extramarital event web site Ashley Madison (seriously WTF). Anyhow, VICE reached away up to a number of individuals whom practice some kind of polyamory to ask them about their experiences with internet dating apps and web sites like OkCupid, Tinder, and Twitter dating teams. Continue reading