‘Heteroflexible’ Emerges As Fastest-Growing Sexuality on Feeld in 2025

Dating app Feeld has reported that “heteroflexible” was its fastest‑growing sexuality in 2025, with the number of users selecting the label rising by 193 percent over the year. The findings come from Feeld Raw 2025, the company’s annual data report on how its members describe their identities, desires, and connections.

Feeld, which describes itself as a dating app for “curious” people and for non‑traditional relationship structures, publishes Feeld Raw to document changing patterns in sexuality and intimacy among its predominantly open‑minded user base. Although the data reflects only Feeld’s community, several outlets have highlighted the report as a snapshot of broader shifts toward fluid sexual identities.

In the report, Feeld notes that people who identify as heteroflexible are primarily attracted to a different gender but remain open to sexual or romantic experiences with people of the same gender. This aligns with widely used definitions in mental‑health and sexuality resources, which describe heteroflexibility as mostly heterosexual attraction with some degree of queer curiosity or occasional same‑gender attraction. Some LGBTQ+ writers and educators frame heteroflexibility as a subcategory within the broader bisexual+ umbrella, because it involves attraction to more than one gender.

Feeld’s data indicates that the heteroflexible surge is being driven largely by millennials. Across the app, almost two‑thirds of heteroflexible‑identifying members are millennials, with Gen Z and Gen X also contributing to the growth. According to Feeld, switching between “heteroflexible” and “straight” is among the most common identity shifts on the platform, suggesting that many users view these labels as flexible tools rather than fixed categories.

Geographically, Feeld’s 2025 report identifies Berlin as the “most heteroflexible” city on the app, based on the proportion of users selecting that label. In parallel, New York City recorded the fastest‑growing bisexual population on Feeld, with bisexual identification up 161 percent, underscoring a broader trend toward sexual fluidity in major urban centers.

Dina Mohammad‑Laity, Feeld’s vice president of data, links the rise of heteroflexible and related identities to a cultural moment where people feel more able to experiment and move beyond rigid labels. She said that users are “exploring connection and playfulness in authentic, fluid ways, ” and that pop‑culture moments, including increased discussions of sex toys and queer visibility in sport, have fuelled curiosity and experimentation among Feeld members.

Ethicist Dr Luke Brunning, a lecturer in applied ethics at the University of Leeds, told Feeld and LGBTQ+ outlets that the data reflects growing public recognition that sexuality is complex rather than fixed. He argued that it would be more surprising if people never experienced curiosity or attraction outside the boundaries of a single gender, given how varied human desire can be.

At the same time, Brunning and other commentators noted that heteroflexibility can be interpreted in conflicting ways within and beyond LGBTQ+ communities. For some people, the label offers a precise and honest description of how they experience attraction or how they currently behave, including those who feel mostly straight but have meaningful queer experiences. For others, especially in parts of the queer community, heteroflexible can raise concerns about bisexual erasure or about people feeling unable or unwilling to claim bisexual or queer identities openly.

LGBTQ+‑affirming outlets such as PinkNews, DIVA Magazine and Vice have framed the Feeld Raw 2025 findings as both an opportunity and a challenge for queer communities. On one hand, they point out that more people questioning rigid heterosexuality and exploring same‑gender attraction can expand understanding of queerness and may reduce stigma around bisexual and fluid identities. On the other, the coverage notes that heteroflexible people, particularly men, can still face intense bi‑erasure and pressure to fit into either “straight” or “gay” categories, both from mainstream culture and at times within LGBTQ+ spaces.

Feeld’s report also situates heteroflexibility within a wider shift toward “pleasure positivity” and experimentation, including a reported 200 percent increase in pegging as an interest among cisgender men on the app and substantial growth in the use of sex toys. According to the company, these trends suggest that many users are challenging narrow ideas of masculinity and embracing more expansive understandings of intimacy, which can overlap with more open attitudes to sexual orientation.

While Feeld’s findings are based on a self‑selecting group rather than the general population, they add to a growing body of research and community reporting that documents rising comfort with labels such as bisexual, pansexual, queer, and heteroflexible. For many LGBTQ+ people and questioning individuals, the report is another sign that language around sexuality is continuing to evolve, creating more space for identities that recognize nuance, fluidity, and change over time.