--- title: Nurse Nicole Tinder Reminds Users to Get Prostate Exams description: Men's health outreach, Tinder style canonical: https://time.com/2818371/this-nurse-is-using-tinder-to-remind-dudes-to-get-prostate-exams/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-04T14:16:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:18.337Z og:title: This Nurse Is Using Tinder to Remind Men to Get Prostate Exams og:description: Men's health outreach, Tinder style og:url: https://time.com/2818371/this-nurse-is-using-tinder-to-remind-dudes-to-get-prostate-exams/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb95c5ae106a3af64/698695ff36176035b490c6f1/tumblr_static_b46vne8yn6ogo88ksksso4kgc.png?branch=production&width=756&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 756 og:image:height: 425 og:image:alt: tumblr_static_b46vne8yn6ogo88ksksso4kgc og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Nurse Is Using Tinder to Remind Men to Get Prostate Exams twitter:description: Men's health outreach, Tinder style twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb95c5ae106a3af64/698695ff36176035b490c6f1/tumblr_static_b46vne8yn6ogo88ksksso4kgc.png?branch=production&width=756&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Nurse Is Using Tinder to Remind Dudes to Get Prostate Exams > Sponsored content. 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Instead, her Tinder profile was set up as part of a health awareness campaign run by [Matches for Men’s Health](http://matchesformenshealth.com/). When a Tinder match is made, Nurse Nicole responds to the sometimes salacious texts from suitors with pithy, health-related comebacks encouraging trips to the doctor for prostate exams, testicular cancer screenings and colonoscopies. If the men get too worked up, she will even suggest blood pressure monitoring. It’s a clever campaign and it should be effective, but based on the text exchanges that appear on [Matches for Men’s Health](http://matchesformenshealth.com/), it’s not clear that the men getting the health tips actually realize that when Nurse Nicole suggests a colonoscopy, she really means a colonoscopy. \[Via [The Daily Dot](http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/nurse-nicole-tinder/)\] **MORE**: [Sick of the People on Dating Apps? 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