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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The post reads: "When it was over, all he said was, 'This is our secret.'

"Michelle came back a little later, after I made sure to delete the dirty texts from her phone, and we continued with our chat about her ‘incredible sex' [she had with her boyfriend], but the only difference was that this time, I knew exactly what she was talking about."

When she finished writing, she hit post. "Dirty little secret" is the most "bootylicious" story on Booty Drop.

BootyDrop.com is a website where college students post hookup stories anonymously.

Since its Aug. 8 launch, it has received almost 100,000 hits, said 20-year-old Kevin Lance, co-founder of Booty Drop and junior at the University of Maryland.

During his freshman year, he and co-founder Matthew Weaver, 20, lived on the same floor at Indiana University and became good friends before Lance transferred to UMD.

After Friday and Saturday nights, students from their dormitory floor came back from parties and usually talked about hookups, Weaver said.

"We wanted to put the lounge experience on the web," said the junior English major at IU.

To maintain anonymity, Lance and Weaver both personally edit each post to ensure no last names are used.

Booty Drop wants to find the middle ground of Texts From Last Night and CollegeACB, Lance said.

"We know people thought CollegeACB was trash, and we didn't want our website to be like that," he said. "And Texts From Last Night was way too short for us. You can't tell a story with such a small amount of words or characters."

It is great to be a Florida Gator, but it is even better to be a Booty Dropper, Weaver said.

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"If I ever did have a crazy occurrence, and I needed to tell someone and did not want to get judged, I would most definitely use [Booty Drop]," joked Sarah Strassler, a 19-year-old chemistry sophomore. "It's just a way for college students to post funny things that happen to them, but anonymously, because hookups can be embarrassing and not always socially acceptable to tell other people."

The site is funny, she said. However, she can see how it would further the stereotype that college students just want to hook up.

The stories are too long, said Nicole Georges, a 20-year-old political science junior.

"No one's really going to sit and read all of them because the stories are similar," she said. "I don't know if I would look at [Booty Drop] every day."

She said if it had more variety and shorter posts, the site would have a better chance of being successful.

"I think it's kind of obnoxious," said Aaron Nadeau, a 19-year-old mechanical engineering sophomore. "I can understand the appeal if that's what you were looking to find, but if you're just a person looking on this website, you can really be put-off by the website, which I was kind of."

The UF portion of BootyDrop.com currently has no posts - yet.

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