LoveHowTo Dating Directory: Gay
Men seeking men need seek no further than this collection of services. From dedicated gay sites to more broad-based services that welcome gay members, there's a rainbow of choice here.
Gay-Oriented Services
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Audience & Features: gay, screened Pricing
Try MyPartner.com The founder of MyPartner and its "Relationship Expert" is Patrick Perrine, who calls himself a "life-partner headhunter." And indeed, this site focuses on long-term life partnerships, not hookups. The heart of the site is the online dating component, with an extensive and completely gay-centric personality profile, a breath of fresh air in an online dating world filled with gay sites that offer options "Single," "Married," "Divorced." A classy and well-thought-out site. Sign up for the personalized matchmaking service and get profile revision service, dating consultations and personal referrals for additional fees. Also offers Honesty Online certification that verifies name, address and birthdate, along with doing a criminal background check. Claims nearly 75,000 members nationwide, 95% of whom are looking for a sexually monogamous relationship.
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Audience & Features: gay, couples Pricing
Try OutPersonals More than 1 million members. There's a certain consistency to the photos on this site: To quote Eric Burden, there are long ones, tall ones, short ones, brown ones, black ones, round ones, big ones...crazy. Not a lot of faces, but somehow you feel you get to know these guys just a little. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: gay Pricing
Try Gay Friend Finder Doesn't feel as edgy as OutPersonals, even thought it's run by the same company. Maybe it's the "Friend" concept. More members' faces than members' members. On the other hand, many who are listed aren't current members or at least haven't been on for a while. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: gay, million+ members Pricing
Try Gay.com Gay.com claims to be the world's largest gay online dating site. It's certainly one of the most attractive, with an engaging design and tasteful and appropriate ads. Most importantly, a wide range of attractive and engaging men. But site outages plague the site, which hasn't been able to provide uninterrupted service. Part of the PlanetOut network.
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Creating a profile means describing your scene and preferred sexual role(s), dick size and more. Most profiles contain only the briefest personal descriptions, primarily because there's a 550-character limit on what you can write. The checklist of personal description and likes is how you'll make your decisions. Plenty to choose from here.
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This one wins the LoveHowTo seal of approval for consistency of offerings. They're cute and responsive. Most importantly, they are who they say they are. Hookup-approved.
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More than 500,000 profiles. And they are wonderful and heartfelt. Still, minimal offerings in certain geographical areas where you'd expect a wealth of choices. Nice guys, just need a few more of them.
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Audience & Features: gay Pricing
Try Gkiss Each profile pops up on its own page so photos (when there are photos) are nice and big. An international crowd, but a decent selection close to home as well - just not as many as other gay sites.
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Currently in beta (it is a little glitchy) and offering free messaging, so check it out. The profiles are detailed, the members caring and sincere, at least those we encountered.
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Audience & Features: gay, events, mobile Pricing
Try Elite Gay Life Elite? Not so much. You'll have to scroll through dozens of weird and spam-like ads during your signup process (a Pamela Anderson type pitching a diet shake, a stock newsletter, Smithsonian Magazine, religious joke site, a Christian dating site AND sex sites). And indeed, signing up led to instant spam. The gay and straight elements of the site aren't separated after all, and you'll see plenty of ads for straight men and women along the side of the page.
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Audience & Features: gay Pricing
Try GayCupid An extremely international crowd (fewer than 15% estimated to be in the US). Try to cancel your membership and they'll ask you why. One of your choices? "I'm engaged to be married." Hm, maybe not the most appropriate for a gay site, at least as long as Bush is still in office. Owned by Cupid Media.
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Audience & Features: gay Pricing
Try gay.date.com An annoying signup process involves writing much more about yourself than any but the most dedicated memoirist would want to do. Then you have to get through a few "special offers" before being able to search - on pages littered with ads. Worse, if you try to click away without signing up, annoying popups beg you to stay and IM with a "live agent." Operated by Avalanche.
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Top Services with Gay Filtering
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, over 40 Pricing
Try Match.com At 20 million members (1.35 million paid) worldwide, one of the largest. Also powers Love@AOL and MSN Dating. A torturous registration process, inexact and redundant. And yet it seems to be worth it...an embarrassment of riches in all categories. If you put in some effort, you won't be disappointed. Best features: "Reverse Matches" evaluates your profile and finds matches who are looking for someone with just your features. "Match Words" identifies key words in profiles and lets you find others with the same interests. There's also a quick snapshot comparing the ways in which you do and don't match up with any profile. Extra features (mobile, seeing whether your email has been read) cost extra, which is pretty cheesy. Owned by InterActive Corp.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try SinglesNet.com 13 million registered users. Site seems to be more about quantity than quality. Offers a personality matching program with featured (i.e., paying) members.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, screened, video Pricing
Try True 11 million members. You must enter a credit card to join and receive a seven-day free trial. While you might not want to give True your credit card info, the site's advantage is that it screens all communicating members against criminal records databases. This means a much higher likelihood that people are who they say they are. Free (and time-consuming) compatibility test endorsed by Psychology Today identifies 99 factors found in successful relationships. Video chat and private chat. Lots of action here, but caliber of members seems slightly lower than average. True aggressively follows up to make sure you find someone, though.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Chemistry.com About 4 million members. Chemistry.com promotes itself as friendly to everyone, including gay and lesbian users - and in fact it is. Registration involves a personality assessment designed by Chief Scientific Advisor and esteemed anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University, who also tells you how each profile matches up to yours. Matches are made for you via a "guided communication process": you review their (her?) choices, which are categorized ("builder," "explorer," etc.) and they learn what you want. Well-done and results-focused. Sister site to Match.com; you can transfer over your Match.com profile.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, over 40 Pricing
Try Yahoo Personals With 3 million users and the power of Yahoo! behind it, this service goes broad and deep. In terms of functionality it's pretty stripped down, but really, who needs the winks and the surveys anyway? "Premier" service features "free" relationship test, a matching system to zero in on marriage material. We had some success on this one.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, intimate, over 40 Pricing
Try Lavalife Primarily 18-34. You join in one, two or three categories (Dating, Relationship, Intimate). Since searches are done in single categories, this potentially limits who will see your profile. You can duplicate your profile but this seems like more work than should be necessary. While popular (5 million members), we found Lavalife to be more limited than other sites in their approach to creating profiles and the member base. Also, the same people hang in for way too long - where are the newbies?
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, video, Christian Pricing
Try Matchmaker This is generally a more serious crowd - these folks are looking for love! Be sincere and you'll get sincere responses. Features video messaging as well as IM and chat. Annoyingly, if you try to click away without signing up, pushy popups beg you to stay and IM with a "live agent." Operated by Avalanche.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Friend Finder 1.9 million members. A decent selection, with notification when someone is online. Webcam chat. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try American Singles Chat, message boards and e-cards, otherwise not much in the way of exciting features. Owned by Spark Networks.
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Specialty Services with Gay Filtering
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Audience & Features: free, million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, intimate, over 40 PricingTry PlentyOfFish Truly, there are plenty of fish in the sea and they run the gamut from those who really buy into the whole fish metaphor ("I'm a Clown Fish...") to those who seemed to be in the neighborhood and figured they'd take a look. Diverse and responsive bunch but mediocre on the follow-through. Maybe you get what you pay for.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian, intimate, BDSM, free, social networking PricingTry MySpace Search profiles by location, age, etc. Not a dating site but incredibly efficient. Just search geographically, by age, and/or interest to find future "friends."
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian, intimate, BDSM, free, social networking PricingTry Craigslist It's the directness of Craigslist personals that let you know exactly what you're getting. Sure, there are fakes, but when you can ask for whatever you want, when you want it, right down to the zip code, that's awesome power. Skews younger and more toward NSAs than LTRs, but it definitely is a major player. If you're in a major city, cut to the chase by going to http://hookupmaps.com and sorting by neighborhood as well as sexual preference.But if you want all the categories, including Strictly Platonic (strangely, some of the freakier listings show up here), Romance and Casual Encounters, you'll have to go to the source, Craigslist itself. Any way you look at it, a most efficient way to ask for what you want and get it quickly.
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Now incorporating JustSayHi. (All JustSayHi accounts, including all mail messages, forum posts, etc. have been moved to Mingle2 intact.) It takes all kinds, and they're all here, from the demanding ("I'm looking for a woman who's hot, a 9 or 10. No fat chicks or druggies, please!") to the careless ("iam easy going laid back down too earth funny a smart ass"). With Mutual Match, you are shown profiles of people who match your search preferences. You give a thumbs up, thumbs down or maybe. Those you like are shown your profile the next time they sign in. If they want to meet you, you have a Mutual Match. Unfortunately, they can't seem to figure out that men looking for men don't make the most appropriate matches for women, which is doubly depressing when the gay guys are so much higher quality than the straight. Ah well. Great forums. Cool features, like stealth mode and a recent activity window that puts all relevant info on who's viewed you, etc. in one place.
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What are you spending so much time tweaking your profile and building your friend list for for if not to attract someone cool? Facebook is the non-dating-site dating site. Originally for the college crowd, the median age has been rapidly climbing since it was opened to the wider population. Of course, that just makes the dating pool more interesting...
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StumbleUpon is designed ostensibly to help users discover new sites, but they're also using it to meet other "Stumblers" who share their interests. Post a profile, post to a forum, share some photos and recommend some websites and you'll meet some new friends...and maybe more.
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Online dating meets the wisdom of crowds. You can play matchmaker for your friends, family and those you meet on the site. You vouch for your friends and help them choose the best matches for them. See someone you like? You can forward the profile to a friend and ask your friend for feedback and advice. The theory? People are more likely to respond to outreach when they meet through a shared community. It's a fun concept that lets you rate the potential matches of strangers and expand your own circle, all while earning points. About 250,000 visitors a month.
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It's in beta and you can tell: navigation is a bit frustrating. But the concept - selecting a photo out of an array to represent your feelings about various topics - is different and fun to do. A little more emphasis on geographical location and age would be nice. You end up with "favorites" who may live thousands of miles away.
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OK Cupid claims they make better matches through questions that also include your ideal match's answers and how much they actually match up with yours, and "superior" personality analysis. They accept user-contributed match questions (once the user has answered 500 questions on the site!). It's a nice way to kill a lot of time but not necessarily more accurate than any other dating service. Also, sometimes users require you to answer questions they've selected before your messages to them can be delivered, which can be disconcerting if you just want to say a quick "Hi, you're cute." Owned by Humor Rainbow.
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This site caters to the under-25 crowd, with a heavy dose of under-21s. This audience is new enough to drinking that they consider it glamorous and cool: heavy drinking is promoted throughout, especially in the introductory video. On the positive side, with a video profile, you get a clear picture of a potential date in action. No trying to figure out if the carefully worded profile is plagiarized or what "attractive" might mean! Verizon Wireless customers can access SayHeyHey's videos right on their phones.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian, million+ members Pricing
Try Hot or Not 1.6 million users. Start by selecting a gender (or both) and age range (or all) you're interested in, then rate photos. With most photos you can "Click here to meet me." It's photo-based, not geographic, so a little more of a crap shoot. Still, there must be something to it: the company, founded in 2000, was purchased in Feb. 2008 for $20 million.
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There's something a little strange about this one. It functions mostly like other sites but elements - the people, the registration process, the features - are a little off. If you have a MySpace profile, the customizer will let you create custom categories for friends, add descriptions, and change photos.
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Funkier than your average site, Mingles definitely looks like it's free in the "you get what you pay for" way. Still, it's populous and worth some time.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Psismic Taking some lessons from Facebook, some from Flickr and some from eHarmony, Psismic (sounds like seismic, for whatever reason), this new Canada-based service aims to take members' required posts (they ask for at least three) and use them as the basis for making matches. If you like to share your pictures, videos and thoughts with an anonymous - and these days who doesn't? - this one's for you.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try FriendSearch The main issue with this one is that, more than other sites that play this game, it claims to be "free" but in fact is quite expensive if you want to do more than browse profiles and rate photos in a "hot or not" style. Other than that, a wide variety of members, and a very international crowd. Around since 1997.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian, BBW Pricing
Try Cupid.com As an unpaid member you can send "Eye Contacts" (Cupid.com's version of a Flirt or a Wink) to let someone know you're interested. But you can't send or reply to messages, other than those sent by Gold and Platinum Members. Register and you'll receive a private email when Cupid makes a match for you. Other features include photo rating, blogging and real-world speed-dating (see our Event Services directory).
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Love City The focus here is truly on the city, since that is the primary way searches are conducted. Ages come only in ranges (18-30, 31-40, etc.), which seems unnecessarily limiting, but that's a minor quibble. Of greater concern is that most profiles are only barely filled out, with lots of "This member has not completed this portion of their profile"s and "Prefer not to say"s. Also some glitchiness and an overly long profile approval process that prevents you from truly engaging with the service.
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Claims 500,000 members and 10 years in business. Specializes in many different demographic groups. Probably not the best marketing idea: juxtaposing stock images of beautiful couples on the left with photos of "Actual Members" on the right side of the home page.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian, couples Pricing
Try IWantU.com Formerly LoveDiner.com. Search results seem completely nonresponsive in the categories of age, geography. Also has intimate/sex and BDSM sites. There's just something weird about it all.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try DatingDirect It's "the UK's largest dating service" (although it's owned by a French company) but does have a US presence, as their ads on Gray's Anatomy indicate. Post a profile and you'll be inundated with responses - but not from anyone who lives near you. It's a nice group of people, but the site isn't really focused on finding someone in your own backyard.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian, couples Pricing
Try The Onion Personals 400,000 members (down from 1 million). This same database is found on other sites. About 4000 members have blogs of varying quality on the subject of dating and life in general, although many are only accessible to paid members. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try YesNoMayb.com Claims to learn your taste and present you with increasingly appropriate matches. You look through a series of international photos and brief descriptors ("healthy," "tardtastic," "good sendse [sic] of humor"...], saying yes, no or "mayb" to each one. If there's someone you're interested in, you can elect to have your photo sent to your potential date. Get a thumbs up and you'll be notified by email or text that it's a match.
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, intimate Pricing
Try DreamMates.com A frustrating sign-up process that forces you to enter a phone number and opt out of third-party offers. Once you get in, the offerings are plentiful, but it's not the brightest crowd: probably more typos per capita than any other site - and that's saying something! Tries to be all things to all people, but the "intimate" side can't begin to compete with the dedicated intimate sites (see our section) and the lesbian members haven't been on in more than a year - guess they've moved on to other places. Owned by Vintacom Media/The Relationship Exchange.
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Audience & Features: million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, intimate Pricing
Try EasyFlirt This international site claims 11 million+ members worldwide; it's not clear how many of those are in the U.S. The English is a little tortured (to sign up, you click a button that says "I become a member"), but it's an interesting crowd and definitely worth a try.
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You create a profile and customize it with photos, links, blog posts, music, video and more. You can then enter speed dating rooms with up to 10 people, start up your own room, IM other members on the site and post blogs. You can even do it from within Facebook by adding an application to your page (see http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=21717164272). A fun and well-implemented concept, and free to use.
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If you're in NY, LA, the SFO Bay area, Chicago, Austin or Boston, try crazyblinddate.com for spontaneous meet-ups in or around your zip code. (If you live elsewhere, you'll be directed to okcupid.com.) Specify single or double date, neighborhood(s), time availability (today, tomorrow or a later date) and the type of place you'd like to meet and CrazyBlindDate will put you together with one or three similar people! It's wild. Owned by Humor Rainbow.
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Audience & Features: parents, straight, gay, lesbian, couples Pricing
Try SingleParentMatch.com The profiles are light on words and heavy on checklist answers, but it's an attractive crowd, and focused on their kids. The forums have tumbleweeds blowing through them.
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About 100,000 paid members, per their SEC filing. Massively effective, the creme de la Jewish creme (or should we say milchik?). If you're Jewish you undoubtedly know at least one couple who met through JDate. Plus you have to love the slogan: "Why is this site different from all other sites?" (If you don't get it, don't bother registering.) Measures users' religious compatibility by comparing adherence to laws of kashrut, frequency of synagogue attendance and form of Judaism practiced (if any). Owned by Spark Networks.
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Audience & Features: Jewish, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Jewish Friend Finder About 50,000 members, but a high-class crowd. Definitely someone for every mensch. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: Asian, straight, gay, lesbian, million+ members Pricing
Try Asia Friend Finder 6.7 million members. Since most of the women on this site, but fewer than half the men, are Asian, this site is recommended primarily for men seeking Asian women. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: Latin, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Amigos.com Now THIS is a wide selection! Lots of great singles in all age groups and from around the world. A large US contingent makes searching (and finding) fun and easy. In English, Spanish and Portuguese. Lots of user-generated blogs, virtually none in English.Owned by Various LLC (the FriendFinder people).
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Audience & Features: Latin, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Amor.com 25,000 international members. Although this isn't as well-populated as other sites in this category, the US crowd is particularly attractive. Every profile includes "My Christian Faith and Goals," as well as spoken and preferred languages. Operated by Avalanche.
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Audience & Features: Christian, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Big Church 500,000 members worldwide. Sincere and responsive singles. Owned by Owned by Various LLC. (Parent company is Penthouse Media - and some people have a problem with that. It may also explain why this is the only major Christian site offering gay and lesbian matches, albeit with minimal offerings in these areas.)
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Audience & Features: intimate, million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, couples, married, BDSM Pricing
Try Adult Friend Finder 32 million members. Billed as "The World's Largest Sex & Swinger Personals Community," AFF boasts 20 million members. One endorsement says, "If you want to get laid this is the site to go to." Pretty straightforward. Pretty true, too. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: intimate, million+ members, straight, gay, lesbian, couples, video, BDSM Pricing
Try Fling.com Wow. Lots of action here. Features include video chat, but really the photos are almost more than most people could handle. These people know what they want and aren't afraid to ask for it. You've been warned. 22 million unique visitors a month.
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Users of this site are open about their likes ("someone who is sexually secure in herself, with extra points if she is bi or bi curious"), abilities ("I can touch my nose with my tongue") and who they're looking for ("the nicest guy ever with a gorgeous smile, a big heart and big hands"). Sexual proclivities are the primary defining elements, but there are plenty of people just seeking a good old-fashioned soul mate with a sense of humor - and a dirty mind. A low percentage of photos, which could mean they're married or just technically backwards. All the erection-pill ads get to be a little tiresome.
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2 million members. Canadian-based service dedicated to helping married people cheat. The slogan? "When monogamy becomes monotony." The site requires you to purchase credits if you want to read emails or follow up with potential...partners. Many profiles without photos ("Please respect my discretionary requirements"), for obvious reasons. There's some good reading here, whether or not you ever initiate contact.
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Audience & Features: intimate, married, straight, gay, lesbian couples Pricing
Try DiscreetAdventures.com Primarily targeting married people looking for affairs. Or as they put it, "an anonymous, discreet and safe way for attached women and men to find a secret love affair." This site asks you to check off what you like sexually when you create your profile. For example, "Interests" include "Extended Foreplay," "Spanking" and "Being Undressed Slowly." Pretty tame compared to some other sites in this category. And the profiles are also tamer, with members looking for Friends with Benefits and someone to help them cope with their loveless marriages. Sort of touching, except for that adultery element.
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Audience & Features: intimate, straight, gay, lesbian Pricing
Try Onlinebootycall "For singles who enjoy being single." This site is predicated on the concept that you can't find a soul mate online, so go for the sex. It has its own 10 commandments, including "Thou shalt not request advanced plans." So at least you're going in with your eyes open! Despite its name, Online Booty Call photos are in fact pretty tame in comparison to others in this category. These are normal people, except that they don't want to be called the next day.
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Audience & Features: intimate, straight, gay, lesbian, couples Pricing
Try Eroticy.com Eroticy was created by two women. Two very dirty women. The site features live sex cams, videos and photo galleries in addition to personal ads. Something for everyone.
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Audience & Features: intimate, straight, gay, lesbian, couples, BDSM, million+ members PricingTry SexSearch.com 15 million members, most of whom are more adept with photos than words. You can browse a few profiles for free, but then must upgrade to continue. The "Gold" level provides access to what SexSearch calls "The internet's largest hardcore porn site."
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Audience & Features: intimate, straight, gay, lesbian, million+ members, married, couples Pricing
Try Passion.com 20 million members. Duplicate of AdultFriendFinder database. Owned by Various LLC.
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Audience & Features: intimate, BDSM, straight, gay, lesbian, couples, video Pricing
Try SexPlayCam Tons of members, incredibly hot, even filthy, profiles, with photos and video galore. You'll find members looking for everything from tame to pervy, from NSA to a committed relationship. Whatever you're looking for, odds are it's here, in a site that's upbeat, easy to navigate and comprehensive. Wow!
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Audience & Features: intimate, straight, gay, lesbian, couples Pricing
Try CasualFriends.com Because profiles are created from a checklist and contain none of the members' own words, there's something sterile about this site. And here's something weird: they ask you to include a "price you want serious members to pay for meeting you for coffee." There are some other strange things here, like a Blog area that has virtually no action. In short, you can do better.
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Audience & Features: intimate, straight, gay, lesbian, free Pricing
Try Mate1 Some concerns about this one. While the people seem nice and sincere, we've heard that Mate1 can pull some tricky stuff when it comes to keeping men signed up. Overlapping ownership with EliteDate.com and sex site AmateurMatch.com.
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Audience & Features: intimate, BDSM, straight, gay, lesbian, million+ members Pricing
Try Alt.com 3.6 million members. Focused on "alternative lifestyle" such as bondage. Friendly users (or not so nice, if you prefer) make this site efficient and fun. One of the best features: a panic page for those awkward moments. Owned by Various LLC. Also accessible via JT's Stockroom, the oldest sex toy company on the Internet (http://personals.stockroom.com).
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Audience & Features: intimate, BDSM, straight, gay, lesbian, couples, video Pricing
Try Bondage.com A smaller user base than Alt.com (about 450,000) but a more detailed checklist helps you find precisely the kink you're looking for. Since it was purchased by Various LLC, owners of Alt.com, long-time users complain quality has suffered. For newbies, it's pretty effective.
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For serious pervs only; CollarMe members are not dilletantes. Don't sign up if you don't play the game. The site's a little slow, which can be frustrating when you're trying to access a particular profile.
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Audience & Features: rich, gay, lesbian, straight, couples, screened Pricing
Try Millionaire Match A substantial and attractive selection. Most stated income levels are unverified but the members look successful and come across as articulate. Sampling proved to be inconclusive, but willing to give it another shot!
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Audience & Features: rich, straight, gay, screened Pricing
Try Wealthy Men It's supposed to be the women who are beautiful but the men are pretty hot too. They list their salaries, albeit in a wide range ($100K-$500K, $500K-$2 million). All new members get free access for 24 hours. You can navigate through the site and talk to other members, but after 24 hours, you are prompted to pay for a membership. The "Wealthy Men Verification System" reviews and confirms the income, pictures and professions of those members who agree to it.
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Audience & Features: rich, straight, gay, lesbian, screened Pricing
Try SeekingArrangement.com 100,000 members. For an annual fee of $1,250, wealthy men can become certified Sugar Daddies (Diamond Club members). Certified Sugar Daddies have their identities, income and net-worth verified by SeekingArrangement.com.
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35,000 members. Targeting amputees, cerebral palsy, MS, deaf, blind, paraplegic. An international crowd, including many who are not disabled but interested in dating those who are. Strangely, the site also features a casino.
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Audience & Features: disease, straight, gay, couples Pricing
Try H-Date.com 40,000+ members with herpes. Besides offering a dating service, this site has up-to-date news and links on issues affecting those with herpes. Their slogan: "Time to start dating again." Membership is on the rise. An active group
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Audience & Features: straight, gay, lesbian, alumni, million+ members Pricing
Try Reunion.com Not all of Reunion.com's 34 million members are looking for love. This is not so much a dating site as a way to reconnect with former schoolmates - but that said, most people probably join looking for that high school romance.
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