My friend did an experiment where he created a duplicate of his profile on Bumble, but used pictures of a really attractive ruggedly handsome muscular fitness trainer on Instagram who also happens to be an amateur porn star. What he found is that the matched women's attitudes changed remarkably about talking sex or when he sent unsolicited nudes under the fake profile versus his experience as a regular average looking fit guy just because they thought they were talking to their dream guy. He showed us screengrabs of a conversation with one woman who matched under his real profile versus the fake one. She was really put off and cold toward him when he asked some questions about what her expectations were about sex in a relationship, and then told him she didn't think it was a match because he sounded like he was looking for a hookup, where as he sent nudes under the fake profile and her response was, "I didn't anticipate that, but I'm not complaining!" and then she went on to talk about how much she loved giving head and having sex. Not a blanket statement, as he still ran into some women who were turned off regardless by sex-related messages, but it just wasn't hard to find a lot more who weren't when they thought the person on the other side was Mr. Perfect.

I don't mean to sound incellish or misogynistic, but something many women don't want to admit about nudes and hookup culture is that men who are deemed to be very attractive play by very different rules than the average guy on a dating site actually looking for a relationship who is actually worth dating. Someone trying to feel someone's sexual personality out or consensually exchange flirty pics is always deemed as creepy when the guy isn't some 10 out of 10, but when the guy looks like someone out of one of those Hallmark Channel movies, a lot of women grant him much more access and less judgement because online dating is a superficial hellscape that favors the beautiful.

FWIW, the most disturbing part of my friend's experiment is that so many women freely sent the fake profile their numbers or asked to meet within hours of matching without even doing a ton of chatting and vetting out if the person on the other side was for real. Luckily my friend's only intention was to do a catfish experiment (which I agree is not the coolest!) for the sake of getting an idea of what people are actually like versus what they say, and not some legit creep with bad motives.