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While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will bring on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the pandemic, a quick scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local gender non-conforming crowd, the ’20s are entering a full roar, toddler. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a new affair website (that’s website, not app) has poised itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.

Sniffies is an upstart gay affair site(NSFW!) that’s pursuing to harken advocate to the former days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a live updated