In the new issue of Out, Michael Joseph Gross takes on the thing that gay guys sort of refuse to but also can't stop talking about: the hookup site Manhunt. The website, founded in 2001, claims a million members, with 400,000 uniques a month—and a stupendously long time-per-visitor, on average, 40 minutes. (The New York Times would kill for that.) They get 30,000 new members a week, and that is a lot of horny gays. How do those numbers stack up in gayland?

Matt Foreman, former executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, notes with some awe that Manhunt's membership is "larger than the membership of every major gay political organization combined."

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