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If your love life is not going so well, then you may want to look away now.

When writer Alex Scola decided to spend a week on Tinder posing as a toilet, he expected to have a few laughs.

But what he never would have expected is that he would have racked up more than 200 matches.

Using the tongue-and-cheek name Oilet, his bio read: "I'm a toilet.

"I take s**t all day and still no one appreciates me."

(Image: Tinder)

One user asked him about his talents, to which he replied: "Well I basically just flush, clog, and make all the bad stuff disappear."

He also boasted that he has "got them smooth curves".

Posting on his blog after the experiment, Mr Scola wrote: "I had never used Tinder before this experiment and, frankly, I'm not sure I ever will again.

"Tis a scary place."

During the experiment, he noted that he found his matches were "a pretty even distribution of men and women".