Before apps gave you grids and swipes and “discreet mode,” there were the wild frontier years of the internet — and Sexpigs.com was one of those gloriously chaotic early hook-up sites that proved gay men were very online long before anyone else knew what to do with a modem. Somewhere between a personals board, a fetish community, and an early social network, Sexpigs offered exactly what the name promised: no pretense, no algorithms, just raw, unapologetic connection.
In the late ’90s and early 2000s, it became a cult classic — part digital cruising ground, part bulletin board, part proto-Grindr vibe where the photos were grainy, the usernames were unhinged, and everyone pretended they weren’t logging in daily. It’s the kind of website that could only have existed in that era, built with HTML, pop-ups, and the kind of honesty apps today wouldn’t dare.
