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Recon has produced two issues of a magazine, with high-quality photography and articles from the fetish community, which is distributed for free at gay venues. Recon produces a number of fetish events for members and non-members, in cities including London and Paris. 2.2 Effect on leather bars, sex clubs and saunas.Recon is owned and operated by T101, the company who also produce Fetish Week London. The broad categories include bondage, fisting, leather, rubber, bears, bikers, chastity, suits, feet, gunge, watersports, and sports gear. One notable feature is the ability to filter members by their declared fetishes and kinks. Unlike those apps, Recon started as a website, with some features, such as the ability to view a user’s public x-rated photos, are solely available on the website due to Apple's policy on adult content. Like many other gay dating apps, such as Grindr and Scruff, Recon allows users to create a profile, communicate with other members through private messages, and filters members by location and interests. It launched as a website in 1999, and as an iOS app in 2010. It’s a little crazy… I was literally saying to people I want to give you money and work out how I can promote my brand and they always turned us away.Recon is a location-based online dating application and service specifically for gay men interested in fetish and kink. It’s proven difficult to even talk to media outlets as they are instantly put off as soon as you mention ‘fetish’. ‘We’ve wanted to do OOH for a couple of years now. He acknowledged that the Squirt campaign had helped him to re-open conversations. He went on to say that Recon had been wanting to do outdoor advertising for a while but had been repeatedly turned down by agencies that owned display space. There are ways and means to put across your brand without offending anyone.’ At the end of the day we just want to promote our brand with striking and stimulating imagery. ‘We worked closely with ClearChannel to understand what we could and could not put in our ad. Pianim told Gay Star Business that Recon had thought carefully about what imagery to use to avoid causing offence. The adverts appear at major railway stations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. Recon Gay DatingĬomplaints against the Squirt adverts were also lodged in the Netherlands, but in a recent ruling, the country’s Advertising Standards Board ruled them as acceptable. Promoting ‘Non-stop hook-ups’ and ‘Non-stop cruising’, and featuring topless male models, the adverts have been removed from bus shelters in Miami and subway trains in Toronto. The Squirt campaign has prompted controversy and complaints. The campaign follows a similar one launched by hook-up app Squirt, which has featured on phone booths, bus shelters and public transport. The brand is inviting people to take a photo of themselves, wearing fetish gear, standing next to one of the adverts, and to post it on social media for a chance to win a limited period of premium membership. Fetish is a normal part of gay lifestyle and that’s why I wanted to bring it into OOH.’ ‘In a way the images are normalizing fetish. We’ve been lucky enough to photograph guys in LA, Chicago, Berlin, Rio, San Francisco and London which make up the basis of our new batch of images for promotions. ‘In the last year we’ve been around the world engaging with our members and other men into fetish. Sandy Pianim, Marketing Manager for the UK-based Recon, said, ‘Our brand has always struggled to build awareness in the normal media outlets due to the content. It focuses on hooking up gay and bisexual men who have an interest in fetish wear. In a statement to Gay Star Business, a spokesperson said it had approximately 175,000 active monthly users. Recon was launched as a website 16 years ago, followed later by the launch of its app. The campaign consists of images of guys in leather, rubber and other fetish gear and features on phoneboxes in 11 central London sites. An OOH campaign is one that consumers see when they’re away when they’re outside their home (i.e. Recon Gay dating app has launched its first ever out of house (OOH) campaign.