Of course there's an app for rating hookups

The women-only app lets users anonymously rate hookups

So here’s the perfect story to wrap up your work week: there’s an app for rating hookups! FINALLY. The app is called Lulu and there's a caveat: it’s only for women. And it’s only for rating their hookups with guys.

Now before you go getting your panties in a twist about sexual objectification, I’ll go ahead and pay lip service now and say I agree with you. In theory. In practice, I’m more like my husband, who nods quietly when I freak out over action movies that objectify female characters by ripping their clothes off, but is secretly digging the half-naked heroine.

When you download the app, it syncs up with your Facebook account so that you instantly see all of the men in your network—including those who might just be friends of friends—and what kinds of ratings they’ve received. I tried it out and was surprised to see all of my male friends plus some instantly on my dashboard. Along with my grandpa and my brothers. (Hi, Grandpa!)

Thank Christ no one has rated them. But the vast majority of my male friends are not men I want to imagine in any kind of sexual situation, so I was relieved to find that most of them haven’t been rated yet.

And then there are a couple of others that did get ratings… One is a guy I don’t personally know, but he’s a friend of a friend. He’s received very high ratings from four women in the last two months for an average score of 8, and some of his hashtag descriptors are very interesting, including #WillActSilly, #CanBuildFires, #CleansUpGood, #KissableLips, and #Big.Feet. Nice!

Some of his not-so-nice hashtags: #GoneByMorning, #IntegrityChallenged, #OneTrackMind, and #F***edMeAndChuckedMe. So of course I had to find this guy on Facebook. And you know what? Slow clap for that…

Lulu is exclusively for women and you’re only allowed to join if you identify as female through Facebook. Men can see their ratings, and many might be pleasantly surprised to find that it’s not all ex-trashing. In fact, of all the ratings I’ve seen, most have been glowingly positive and really make me wish I was single again. And all of the activity is totally anonymous.

Interestingly, the app’s founder, Alexandra Chong, is not Samantha from Sex and the City. Chong grew up in Jamaica and attended boarding schools in Canada and England and—at one point—a tennis academy in Florida (?). She ended up going to the London School of Economics to study law and had plans of getting involved in large-scale family planning initiatives in Jamaica (namely to help curb the high number of teen pregnancies the country sees every year). Wanting more work experience, she started working for an online startup. And then we all ended up with Lulu.