How do you mantain personal safety if using apps such as Grindr to obtain sex?
I posted this in r/sex but my account is very new so the post got autodeleted awaiting moderator approval which after several hours hasn't come... I post it here because of that and also to get extra answers.
Greetings
I am 22, virgin, transfeminine but pre-everything, and planning to lose my virginity within a few weeks to a month by having receptive anal.
But I am afraid, because this country I live in is a dangerous one, everyone could steal from you, or maybe worse, and I do not want to happen to me, plus if it happened (and I survived if it isn't a hate crime) I would be in trouble with my protective and somewhat homophobic mother (who called men having anal sex abhorrent).
I of course have the practical basics set (condom use, lube, douche for cleaning), and I do plan on sending my location to a bisexual friend who knows what I'm going for (but not to my mother for obvious reasons, and this is a problem because my friend lives in another town, though he can warn my mother)...
I, obviously, have to go to the guy's house as I can't host (which would be safer) and don't have money for a motel.
I'm seriously beginning to wonder whether I should wait, but the problem is because of personal reasons I cannot get my own place or a job for several years. Is there any safer way to obtain sex? Relationships are out of the question as I'm aromantic (and my bi friend is in one), and I do not want to pay for sex work because there's no guarantee the person is there because of their own desires.
So that is my question, thanks.
Mini rant now: I hate how I feel in a surveillance state having to hide condoms, lube and the douche from my mother as I live in a small apartment with almost nowhere to hide these but my bag, I also wanted butt plugs to train myself but too risky. I also had asked my mother to not open a package that came, to which she reacted suspiciously about and later in the day she even suspected things about a dildo in a very judgemental way. God I'm so tired.