Alternative lifestyle dating apps

A recent YouGov study showed that as many as 23% of British people had given serious consideration to some form of non-monogamy, whether that’s swinging, an open relationship, or consensual polyamory. As a result, dating is changing shape too.

Driven by access to information via the internet and by the growing social empowerment of women, relationship conventions are evolving, and alternative, non-traditional relationships styles are emerging. Relationship dynamics are changing right before our eyes. Regardless of whether your thing is polyamory, BDSM, kink or fetish - there’s a dating app for that. More mainstream apps might not have the dating pool you’re looking for but there are plenty of alternative digital spaces popping up, where you can find likeminded people, dates and community, all easily downloadable to your phone. And, thankfully, tech and social media is right behind us, supporting us all the way. Over the past decade or so, in no small part due to the sex positivity movement, it’s become way more common to be open about sex and sexuality.