Homosexuality and LGBT identity is a taboo in some regions of the world, including in most of Africa and Asia.
[2] It is therefore, not difficult to see people involved in secret dating with same sex partners in those regions of the world.
A historian, Daniel Rivers threw light on how gay parents were in constant fear in the early '70s and '80s of losing their children, in his book, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II.
[7] With the advent of the online solutions like Tinder and Badoo, scamming and manipulations between the parties have increased.
The disadvantages of this type of dating now include stalking and constant need of personal possession.