Introducing the Feeld app – a racy new way for couples to arrange threesomes

KINKY couples and singletons looking for threesomes now have an easy way to arrange casual hook-ups.

It’s all thanks to an app called Feeld – formerly known as 3nder, but forced into a name change when Tinder sued the company earlier this year.

A far cry from all the comparatively tame standard dating apps, Feeld is home to scores of users with a penchant for a little sexual deviance.

“Looking for someone I can strangle, then snuggle after,” reads one bio.

That kind of opening line might raise eyebrows on platforms such as Happn or Tinder, but it’s standard banter here.

And it seems there are a growing number of couples seeking out an open-minded man or woman to join them in bed for a night of passion.

So just how easy is it to organise a threesome with people of similar sexual interests?

Using fake names to protect their identities, Sarah, 32, and her partner Mark, 39, are professionals based in Sydney and identify as pansexual (not limited in sexual choice) and heteroflexible (often defined as ‘mostly straight’ but with occasional homosexual tendencies), respectively.

As a couple, they’ve engaged in five threesomes during their six-month relationship, with Sarah having taken part in another three on previous occasions.

“We’re in an open relationship and can both date and sleep with other people, either together or separate, but we tell each other about it and are mindful of jealous feelings when they arise,” she said.

Sarah revealed group encounters usually occur naturally rather than via formal avenues like dating apps.

She said: “We’ve had a few threesomes with mutual female lovers of ours and at parties if there is a vibe and we’re both into it. It has to be mutually agreeable and there’s never any pressure on anyone to do anything they are not enthusiastically into.

“We need to be in a good place in terms of our connection so we can be open and generous to the third, and they need to be into us, too.

“It starts slowly with flirting and testing the waters, it’s usually pretty clear if people want to hook up.

“If we’re hanging with someone we’ve been with before, Mark and I might start things with each other and then invite them to join. With a new person we’d probably focus mostly on them and make sure they are having fun.

“We’ve also had a lot of fun at parties in group situations of up to 8 or 12, with various combinations of people hooking up over the course of the evening. Sometimes four or five in a pile together.”

To date, Sarah and Mark’s experience supports the findings of the US survey that same-sex encounters are on the rise for women, with most of their threesomes involving bisexual and “predominantly hetero women who are bi-curious to some degree”.

She said: “Mark is bi-curious, but has limited same-sex experience, we’d be very keen to have a threesome with another bi or bi-curious man.”

On face value, Feeld seems like a guaranteed ticket to a threesome.

There are no qualms as to your motivations and therefore less ambiguity. Users are able to list their preferences, be it FFM (female-female-male) or MMF (male-male-female), sexual preferences and fetishes. For many, it’s a safe place to lay it all on the table.

“We’ve met up with some people separately on Feeld to test a vibe for the both of us but it hasn’t worked out,” said Sarah.

“There are a lot of MF (male-female) couples looking for bi women and also lots of single hetero men looking for anything they can get.

“It’d be nice to see more queer or flexible men and same sex couples.”

Some profiles show couples kitted out in bondage, others just look like regular people.

Not everybody’s cup of tea though…