> Assuming that online dating works magically well for gay/lesbian folks but doesn't for straight people seems like a really large leap to make Not if you live

> Assuming that online dating works magically well for gay/lesbian folks but doesn't for straight people seems like a really large leap to make Not if you live in an area with skewed gender ratios. The thing that makes gay dating in such an environment "easy" compared to straight, is that supply (gay men) and demand (people looking for gay men) is essentially the same (plus or minus a handful of bisexuals). Whereas straight dating is fractured into two supplies and two demands, and straight women = demand for straight men straight men = demand for straight women What you really want is for the diagonals (supply and matched demand) to be equal, but they aren't in a lot of places.