US Goverment Spent $432,000 Of Taxpayers Money On Studying Gay Hookup Apps

By Stuart Webb | WeaponizedNews.Com | Jan 23, 2015

The National Institutes of Health, an establishment operating under the Department of Health and Human Services, has spent $432,000 of the taxpayers to conduct a study on the use of homosexual dating apps since 2012. “The overall study goal is to understand how sexual risk behaviors among MSM may be facilitated by the nature of GPS-enabled smartphone applications, the way they are used, and the process by which sexual partnering occurs via smartphone applications” the project’s text states. The aims of the study were:

1. Examine how and why smartphone applications are used for sexual partnering, the situations and locations in which they are used, in order to gain insights into how these use patterns might contribute to sexual risk behaviors.

2. Investigate the process by which MSM use smartphone applications to find sexual partners (i.e., who they look for, how they present themselves, how they communicate, extent of safer sex negotiation,and disclosure) to gain insights into how this process may contribute to sexual risk behaviors.

3. Investigate the sexual and emotional states (e.g., more/less urgency, arousal, impulsivity) that MSM experience when seeking or meeting sexual partners using smartphone applications and gain insights into how these states may contribute to sexual risk behaviors.

4. Examine the perceived need and acceptability of a smartphone delivered intervention and assess what MSM perceive as needed components for a smartphone-based sexual risk reduction intervention.”

(MSM or Men who have Sex with other Men)

The Washington Free Beacon says Karolynn Siegel, a Columbia University professor, and awardee of the project funds, is apparently analyzing the data from the study now that the funding has discontinued.

As the national public debt of the United States exceeds $18,000,000,000,000 (Yes, that is twelve zero’s) and the debt per citizen is inching towards $57,000, including those who do not pay any taxes, I think it is safe to say that we should seriously re-evaluate where we spend our tax dollars. Is interviewing gay men about their tactics for getting laid via smartphone apps a worthy use of tax payers dollars? Or would using that $430k to pay down our national debt be a more feasible option? Let’s see, I think I’ll go with option two.