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yoBreeder is a gay hookup and cruising app for men looking for action, for tops, breeders, and the men who want them. It is for men who want more than just oral: penetration, intercourse, the full experience. If you are looking for just oral, this won't be your match, and it says so up front, so nobody wastes a night finding out.

It runs in your browser. No app to install, no app store listing, and nothing on your home screen unless you put it there yourself.

One honest note. yoBreeder started in South Florida, in Wilton Manors, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, and it is new in West Hollywood. New men are joining, it is free, and Browse shows every one of them nearest first, so you never have to wonder who is being hidden from you.

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About 30 seconds. No city to type, no photo needed to look around.

A small city with a big street

West Hollywood is its own city, not a neighbourhood of Los Angeles. It covers less than two square miles, squeezed between Hollywood to the east and Beverly Hills to the west, and it has been run as its own city since 1984, with openly gay council members and mayors for most of that time.

Its spine is Santa Monica Boulevard. The stretch through the middle of town, the Rainbow District, is the gay strip most of the world has heard of: bars, clubs, patios and gyms close together, with the rainbow crosswalks marking the heart of it. On a hookup app, a town this compact changes the maths. The men you are looking for are not scattered across a county. A lot of them are within a few blocks of the Boulevard.

What you get

Everyone, nearest first

Browse shows every member near you, sorted by distance. In a town this small, the first screen is your block and the next one is the Boulevard.

Say it, don't type it

Tell Cypher out loud what you want and it finds the men whose profiles match, instead of making you set six filters.

Send your location when you're ready

Once you have talked, one tap in a private chat sends him exactly where you are, with directions. Only to him, only when you choose.

Santa Monica Boulevard, and the problem with it

The Boulevard is the reason most men come to West Hollywood. It fills every evening, it overflows on weekends, and on Pride weekend and Halloween it is packed from one end to the other. It has one weakness an app does not. You have to be there, dressed, parked and a couple of drinks in before you learn whether anyone in the room wants the same thing you do.

yoBreeder turns that around. You find out who is nearby and what he is after first, from your couch, your car, or the patio you are already sitting on, and the Boulevard becomes the place you meet him rather than the place you go looking.

And the Boulevard closes. yoBreeder doesn't.

Where the men near West Hollywood are

Nobody on yoBreeder is cut off at a city line, and in West Hollywood that matters, because the city ends a few blocks from wherever you are standing. These are the places around it.

The Rainbow District

Santa Monica Boulevard through the middle of town and the side streets off it. The closest thing West Hollywood has to a centre.

The flats and the Sunset Strip

The apartment streets between Santa Monica and Sunset, and the Strip above them. Where a lot of the men who live in WeHo actually live.

Hollywood

Right next door to the east. Bigger, busier, and a short ride from the Boulevard.

Silver Lake and Echo Park

Further east, and the other half of gay Los Angeles. See the Los Angeles page for the rest of the city.

Who yoBreeder is for here

Tops, breeders, and the men who want them. West Hollywood is a mix of men who live here, men who work in the city around it, and men in town for a weekend, a shoot or Pride. yoBreeder does not sort them for you. It shows you all of them by distance and lets the profiles say what each man is after.

It is also a town where plenty of men are out at the bar and would still rather keep who they are hooking up with to themselves. That is what an app is for.

How it works

1. Join

An email, your birthday and what you are into. No city to type, it works that out.

2. Look

Every member near you, nearest first. Not a sample, not a paywalled list. Everyone.

3. Say it

Tell Cypher what you are after and it matches you on it.

4. Meet

Message anyone. When you are ready, send him your location and meet, on the Boulevard or wherever suits you both.

Getting a reply

Put a photo up. Men with one get answered far more often than men without, and the app will tell you so rather than leave you guessing. A short profile video counts too.

Say something specific. One message that mentions what he actually wrote does better than "hey" to twenty men. And in LA, distance is time: the man a mile away in WeHo is a ten minute walk, and the man across town is an hour on the 101.

When West Hollywood is busiest

Evenings, and Thursday through Saturday nights most of all, when the Boulevard is full and plenty of the men on it have their phones out. The two biggest weekends of the year are Pride, around the start of June, and Halloween, when Santa Monica Boulevard turns into one long street party. Early evening on a weeknight is quieter, and quiet has its uses, because you are one of the few faces on the first screen.

Coming from South Florida, or going there

If you split your year between Los Angeles and South Florida, or fly between them for work, yoBreeder works the same in both places: Browse starts from wherever you are standing. In West Hollywood you see the men around the Boulevard. Land in Fort Lauderdale and the men around Wilton Drive are already there, because that is where yoBreeder began.

Why yoBreeder, when you are already on the other apps

Every hookup app says it is for everyone, which is how you spend a week finding out somebody wanted something different from you. yoBreeder says who it is for on the door. Men who want just oral are told plainly this isn't their app. That loses us signups and saves everybody the week. If you want to know where the name comes from, here is what "breeder" means, and here is how Breeder, Receiver and Both work on the app.

Grindr

The biggest, and a grid of everyone with no stated purpose, so you find out what a man wants by asking. Free accounts see a capped list.

Sniffies

A live map, and very good at cruising in the moment. It is about where he is; yoBreeder is about what he wants.

Scruff, Jack'd and the rest

General apps with a type attached. The app never says what it is for, so every conversation has to work it out.

yoBreeder

One purpose, stated publicly: more than just oral. Everyone visible, free messaging, voice search, nothing to install. Smaller than all of them, and honest about that too.

Staying private in West Hollywood

In a town this small, an exact pin is an address. yoBreeder never shows one. Every member's position is blurred by between half a mile and a mile and a quarter before it leaves our server, so the map puts you in your part of town and never on your doorstep. The only way anyone sees exactly where you are is if you send it to him yourself, in a private chat.

There is no app on your home screen with a name on it, and you can delete your account yourself from your own profile, without emailing anybody.

Questions

Is yoBreeder free in West Hollywood?

Yes. A profile, browsing every member near you and messaging are all free. Premium is optional, costs $7 a month, and adds extras like incognito mode and video calling. It never unlocks people.

Is yoBreeder active in West Hollywood yet?

yoBreeder started in South Florida and is new in West Hollywood, and new men are joining. Browse shows every member nearest first, with no capped list and no paywall, so whoever is on near you is the first thing you see.

Do I need to download an app?

No. yoBreeder runs in your phone browser at yobreeder.com. There is nothing to install and nothing named on your home screen unless you choose to add it.

Does it show men outside West Hollywood too?

Yes. yoBreeder does not stop at a city line. It shows every member near you, nearest first, so Hollywood, Silver Lake, Beverly Hills and the rest of Los Angeles are all there as you scroll.

Can people see where I live?

No. Every member's position is blurred by between half a mile and a mile and a quarter before it leaves our server, so the map shows your area and never your address. You can choose to send your exact location to one man in a private chat. That is the only way anyone sees it.

I split my time between LA and South Florida. Does it work in both?

Yes. Browse always starts from where you are. In West Hollywood you see the men near you, and when you are back in Wilton Manors, Fort Lauderdale or Miami, where yoBreeder started, you see the men who are already there.

Who is yoBreeder for?

Tops, breeders, and the men who want them. Men looking for more than just oral: penetration, intercourse, the full experience. It says so on the door, so everyone on it is looking for the same thing.

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