A few years ago, I used to be active on Tinder and very shameless about trying to get laid. I was getting sort of bored of my usual type at the time (white, highly educated, sorority) and started to push my boundaries a little, experimenting with girls of different ethnicities and outside my social bubble. I live in a city that receives a lot of international tourism so I eventually started matching with short-term travelers from across the globe. After a memorable evening with a Saudi Arabian woman who was my first sexual experience with a foreigner, I decided to focus more intently on what women from countries had to offer.
From her dating app profile pictures, Nadia looked like a well-traveled socialite type. Her profile said she was 25 and lived in Moscow, and she had red, curly-ish hair past her shoulders, pale skin, green eyes and a fit body with what I expected would be nice curves. I’m a 6’3 white guy who is in shape for comparison. Her pics looked like they were taken at fashionable events, and she was dressed very well and with jewelry that signaled she was a person who came from means. Once we matched and started talking, I found this assumption correct. She was traveling with a couple of friends around North America. They had just landed in my city after a week in Mexico at the beach and were on there way to NYC for a week after my city. It was winter so they were still adjusting to the travel and temp change from the beach and her friends wanted to take the night off. She, however, was up for meeting me for a drink.