Survey Finds 70 Percent of Men on Dating Apps Have Lied

In a poll taken by GQ Magazine called "The Modern Lovers Survey", researchers found that 70 percent of men surveyed have lied on dating apps to make themselves appear more attractive to potential matches.

According to the study, respondents admitted to misrepresenting themselves when it came to career, age, height, or appearance, or some combination of those, to get more matches. The study found that 36 percent of respondents had misrepresented themselves in their photos, and 35 percent had lied about their age. The study also found that 28 percent had lied about their careers and 27 percent about their height.

In fact, GQ also found that as many as 21 percent of the men they surveyed were lying about their marital status. These respondents admitted that they were already in monogamous relationships and still using dating apps. And 29 percent of the men surveyed admitted they had kept a former love interest’s nude photos after a breakup, compared with only 8 percent of women who said they did the same.

In fact, a whopping 60 percent of men surveyed said they have had an affair, compared to only 32 percent of women. However, as GQ pointed out, the definition of cheating is a little ambiguous. Respondents were asked if interacting with or following someone on social media can constitute cheating, and 37 percent of men and 32 percent of women agreed that it could.

GQ also delved into the topic of non-monogamy and found that these types of non-traditional relationships were becoming more of a consideration for younger people. Nearly half of men (47 percent) said they would consider a relationship that wasn’t monogamous, 9 percent said they were already in a polyamorous relationship, and 12 percent said they were currently in a consensually non-monogamous or open relationship.

Conversely, while non-monogamy is quickly becoming more popular among younger people, it stands in stark contrast to attitudes towards sex when it comes to how many partners one has had. According to the survey, 28 percent of men, the most of those surveyed, said the number was “too high” for a woman when it was “more than 10.” For women however, body count became a problem when the men they dated had been with “more than 25.”

And for Gen Z users in particular, 71 percent said that how many sexual partners a love interest had mattered to them, higher than both millennial groups of 25 to 34 year-olds and 35-44 year-olds.

The survey polled 604 men between the ages of 16 and 44.