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Something tells me he won’t have time to see them all.
Sure, some people might be into the idea of a person or two wanting to have sex with them, but when it’s 1,100 people, it’s more of a headache. I mean, just ask New York City resident, Matthew Herrick. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular dating app for gay and bisexual men, after claiming that 1,100 men came looking for sex at his house and at his job.
According to Herrick, for the last five months, as many as 16 people a day have been reaching out to him at his house and place of work and “aggressively demanding sex.”
“My entire life has been stolen from me,” Herrick told Wired magazine. “My privacy has been taken from me. I’m humiliated daily. It’s a living hell.”
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— Matthew Herrick (@MatthewSHerrick) February 14, 2017
And why has this happened to Herrick? Well apparently a pissed off boyfriend created the fake Grindr accounts. Some of the fake profiles share Herrick’s photos and details, while other profiles claim Herrick is HIV positive and that interested men should should not be discouraged if he’s resistant because it’s “part of an agreed upon rape fantasy or role play.”
Herrick’s lawyer, Carrie Goldberg, says Grinder is in part to blame for offering a “dangerous product,” and comparing the app to a car battery.
“If the manufacturer and seller both know the battery could explode, there’s a duty to inform users of the risk,” Goldberg told CNN. “Not to mention a duty to evaluate whether the product is so dangerous it should be removed from the market altogether.”
Tinder is also a wasteland, but I don’t think that’s leaving the market anytime soon.
Taking over BK in my rondorff DISCIPLINE tee. : balance2089 pic.twitter.com/zdg9euuzob
— Matthew Herrick (@MatthewSHerrick) September 18, 2016
“Grindr does not use even standard, widely available software programs … routinely used by interactive service providers to control their sites and products and to facilitate the safety and security of their users and the public,” the complaint by Herrick and his lawyer reads, as they believe Grindr is responsible for fraud and deceptive business practices.
Here’s what Grindr had to say:
“While we are constantly improving upon this process, it is important to remember that Grindr is an open platform.”
So that’s a useless statement.
Herrick says that he notified Grindr and left over 100 reports that their were fake profiles of him, and the only thing he received was a “Thank you for your report” message. “They were setting him up to be sexually assaulted,” Goldberg adds. “It’s just luck that it hasn’t happened yet.”
I’m just impressed that he kept a tally on all the guys that visited him.
h/t NY Daily News
