Some online users have used catfishing to explore their gender and/or sexual identities.[7] For example, on the MTV show Catfish, based on the documentary, a girl named Sonny connects with a male model named Jamison who is, in reality, Chelsea, a woman using her alternative identity to interact with other women in an online space.[7] In a personal essay for The New York Times' Modern Love column and a subsequent podcast episode[8] narrated by actor Cory Michael Smith, writer Kalle Oskari Mattila recounted how pretending to be a woman online helped him to find himself as a young boy growing up in a strictly gendered society.[9]