BDSM and alternative lifestyle personals. Explore your fantasies at alt.com, a supportive alternative lifestyle community. Millions of profiles with sexy photos.
"The world's largest sex and swinger personal website" (according to themselves), Adult FriendFinder serves people looking for sexual encounters encompassing everything from vanilla to fetish, with searches that take varied proclivities into account. This is the place for married people to meet each other for "friendships with benefits," where recently divorced mid-lifers try to sow the wild oats they didn't before, and where young people wanting to experiment find willing instructors. You can be as explici ... Full Review
The folks I interviewed tend to use this site more as a way to socialize online rather than as a dating service. The chat rooms are very popular.
Features include the usual profiles, as well as an instant messenger program, a chatroom, and forums. The members I spoke to had some trouble with the instant messenger service.
I found their questionnaire terrible. They force you to choose qualities about your prospective mates that really shouldn't matter, such as hair and eye color. Also, there are many m ... Full Review
"I've had a lot of fun with this site." --D.T., 36, CT
Like others in the Lavalife network, this site is split into three sections: Friends, Relationships, and Intimate Encounters. There are separate profiles for each section, which can include photos and video clips. Photos and video clips can be public or by invitation only. One-on-one chatting is permitted via on-site chat window. Searches can be created and saved based on geographic location, physical qualities, and/or interests.
Each email sent costs 6 credits (replies are free). A 20-minute chat sessi ... Full Review
Total Members: 2 million in the Spring Street network.
Prospects online at review time: 956.
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Credits: 25/$24.95 50/$39.95 100/$69.95.
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"Some of the responses had me laughing out loud, and I found myself making almost as many notes on new books to read as new folks to message." --A.D.J., 35, AT
Nerve.com is a trendy sex-slanted webzine which offers photos, articles, fiction, essays and funky-sexy products like sex-position calendars, sex etiquette books and hip T-shirts. Their personals database stems out of the Spring Street Network, of which more below.
On Nerve, you pay for what you use. Other services bill monthly, but Nerve works on credits. It takes a credit to contact someone, but you can reply to a message received for free. Chatting also burns credits--fairly quickly, I might add--at ... Full Review
Free three-day trial; 1 mo./$21.95 6 mos./$99.95 12 mos./$139.95. Payment by check or money order costs slightly more.
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Eroticy is a unique personals site that combines sex/swinger personals and escort services with hardcore pornography. This way, if you can’t find a playmate, at least you can play with yourself. According to our friend Sir Rodney, best known as “the Roger Ebert of porn,” the porn is just okay, but there is also a vibrant, open community here.
Users can use the personals AND the porn in a three-day free, no-credit-card trial. People can join as a female, a male, or a (presumably heterosexual) couple. If t ... Full Review
"I have met a very nice, interesting, very fine girl from Houston, like myself. We have really hit it off, and talk all the time. I recommend this site to others." --S.N.B., 37, TX
This is the sex-oriented version of Imatchup.com, so the site design is identical. Only difference here is that you can sign up as a man, woman, couple (hetero, lesbian or gay), or a group. Some unique facets include the ability to rate people's appearance by their photos, and to view videos uploaded by other members. If you want to view X-rated photos of other members, you have to give the site your credit card information for age verification purposes.
In filling out my profile, I noticed that there wa ... Full Review
Alt.com is intended to be a BDSM website, but also caters to swingers. There are many more men than women on the site, around a 10 to 1 ratio.
The interface is complex. There are many features: good. But it can be confusing: bad. Free users can post a profile, but not much more, and are limited to sending one email per 24-hour period.
The site includes regional chat boards and live pro video chats. A nice feature of a site that caters to poly folks and swingers is that they allow you to sign up as a c ... Full Review
Passion.com is pretty much your basic sex personals site, nothing special. Just to give you straight guys an idea of what you're up against on a site like this, for my state (MA), there were about 117,000 listings of men seeking women, and just over 8,000 listings of women seeking men. Those are pretty sucky odds.
They don't allow you to do much for free. You can set up your profile, but you can't even view others' profiles--only their photos and basic stats (age, sex, location). You can't email anyone, ... Full Review
"While hippies talk free love, love-ins, and the liberating power of sexuality, we goths don't fall for that rubbish. We understand that alienation and being alone is our natural state. Sex is not about liberation, it is medication. It is the quest for dull the pain that is life's bitter angst.
"This site is not to find meaningful relationships. As there are no meaningful relationships. Relationships are an illusion! In the end they only cause you more drama and pain. This site is about lustful but mean ... Full Review
This is the "hot" version of One and Only (see that review). There the purpose is romance; here it's mainly SEX. All the rules of operation are the same, and even with the more open purpose you'll not find many bedmates.
You can sign up as a male, female, or couple (Lesbian, Gay, or hetero), and search for a male, female, or couple.
When the Dating Dude ran a wide open search for gay men with every criteria checked and the age range set at 20 to 80, he found only 18 guys in California that have visite ... Full Review
