Dudesnude
Social networking website for men who have sex with men
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::summary Social networking website for men who have sex with men ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | DudesNude |
| screenshot | dudesnude.jpg |
| screenshot_size | 220px |
| url | |
| commercial | Yes |
| type | gay online dating, photo database, cruising |
| language | English |
| registration | Required |
| owner | Theme Park AG |
| launch_date | |
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| name = DudesNude | screenshot = dudesnude.jpg | screenshot_size = 220px | url = | commercial = Yes | type = gay online dating, photo database, cruising | language = English | registration = Required | owner = Theme Park AG | launch_date =
dudesnude is a popular social networking website dedicated to gay, bisexual, bicurious and men who have sex with men. The site was launched in 2002 and it has over 500,000 members. The website's purpose is to facilitate chat, dating, and setting up sexual encounters known as a "hookup".HIV prevention and MSM assessment , Indiana Department of Public Health
- FBLA 20 Questions: Peter McQuaid, Kate. FishbowlLA. March 12, 2007. Retrieved 24, 2010.
- dudesnude . Quarkbase. 2010. Retrieved November 24, 2010. The site also has a live-streaming feature, where members can chat with others while masturbating on webcam. The company slogan is "picture, video, and profile sharing for men!" The company is based in London and the homepage is flanked by a bare chested man staring upward, partially obscuring his face.
Interface and users
Members select various statistics which include, race, age, height, weight, adherence to safer sex practices, amount of body hair, body type, penis size, and other criteria. They also upload pictures of themselves, at least one of which must show their unclothed body, shirt off. As a result, the site has been described as the most graphic and audacious of the gay dating sites. There is a space on the profile dedicated to a text description of the member and what he is looking for, these blurbs range from a few sentences to full pages. Members join any of several communities such as those reserved for those that are visibly muscular. Members can then choose to allow or disallow other communities from being able to see them. This community-based system is one of the site's unique selling propositions in that it allows a more nuanced search function for attributes within user profiles. It acts as a pre search, along with age range preferences, so that members only see, and are only seen by, other members who they are likely to find attractive. Thus giving the impression that the site is dedicated to their tastes and requirements and avoiding unwanted contact.
Another of the site's features, once a Unique Selling Point but something other sites have since adopted, is an optional verification feature, used to give other members a greater degree of certainty that the pictures on the profile are of the person using it. Each member has a unique profile ID number. They take a picture of themselves holding up this number which is checked by site staff, and if it can be seen to match the profile pics, a verification mark is awarded.
Dudesnude is free for a basic profile, which gives access to almost all features and is not as restricted as the offerings of some of the other players in the field. Dudesnude has been reported as "fun" to carouse through, A paid profile allow for more storage space, faster video download, the ability to message those with full inboxes and a 'tracker' facility to show who looked at your profile. Dudesnude is owned by Invades Ltd. It is hosted in the USA but is administered from United Kingdom.
Twink porn star Tory Mason was discovered off of his dudesnude profile.
Site popularity and review
The site receives more than 72 million hits a year. According to Alexa rankings the site is the 7,583rd most popular website, making it more popular than competitor and pioneer gay.com and third only to competitors adam4adam and manhunt.net.
In 2005 the British magazine QX reviewed the site and said that it had one of the best search functions for making social connections.
Dudesnude makes over US$163,000 a year in revenues from advertising, memberships, and an online porn viewing section and store. The site receives more than 72 million hits a year. The estimated worth of the website is US$329,482.99.
Dudesnude won a Boyz Magazine scene award in April 2011.
Global appeal
The website is popular worldwide, which is an oddity as most gay hookup sites are based either in the United States, Europe or Australia but dudesnude is popular throughout. Dudesnude is most popular in the United States followed by South Korea, Canada and México.
In 2007 dudesnude featured in the controversial GenderBender Festival in Italy, being the topic of the audio collage "Into My Eyes".
Public health
Many public health groups targeting Sexually Transmitted Disease treatment have criticized or worry about online sex sites such as dudesnude in addition to its counterparts, Manhunt, gay.com, and adam4adam because of their high incidence of facilitating unprotected sex and therefore the transmission of HIV and other STDs. In fact, research in Australia shows that condom usage between partners that meet through dudesnude is low.
References
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