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AdultFriendFinder.com is for those who wish to find some pals with whom to “play” and for those who choose to share tales of their adult exploits with appreciative new amigos. It’s kind of like joining an x-rated country club. As the name claims, you’re finding friends not just partners for intimate encounters. You’re going to be able to create a “My Friend Network” letting you keep in touch with a whole group of online buddies by sending special bulletins to your exclusive list of cohorts and sharing with them exclusive private online albums too. Your selected connections can also boast about your host of great qualities from whichever perspective they share by adding a personal testimonial right onto your profile.

Immediately on this site you’ll be struck by how much access you get just for filling out a free profile. Granted some services like accessing full member details are somewhat restricted, but nevertheless you’ll get a complete look at some of the subscribers listed in the summary glimpses returned from your searches. Unlike on “standard” personals, some of the thumbnails are pretty racy, so it might not be long before you find yourself motivated to upgrade to a premium membership to see more than just a peak. In the meantime, a wink to show interest costs nothing to send. Put a profile onto your Hotlist and the system will dispatch posthaste an e-mail letting that other person know he/she has scored well on your sexiness meter. It always worth at least trying to enlarge each profile since the popularity of a profile sometimes lets even standard members view it and paid subscribers can optionally pay a bit extra to allow free access to every membership level.

You can join in discussions on message boards under Groups. Some people use them as forums for organizing adult get-togethers in their local areas. There are loads of spicy stories told by all levels of members posted on the boards and in the online Magazine area in its subscriber-submitted articles. Topics are not always completely “adult”, more mundane ramblings and free advice also abound. That being said, generally the issues addressed are not for the shy or modest type of reader. For regular updates on your favourite members, the service now freely provides the newly popular “blogs” to peruse or post yourself.

The chat rooms are publicly available but paid members are granted special advantages like hotlinks to each chatting comrade’s profile to see his/her details, as well as being able to open private chat rooms to take conversations to the next level. If you’re a bit of an exhibitionist or merely yearn to demonstrate your star quality, you can broadcast your webcam to the entire chat room group. Instant messaging programs in Web-based and downloadable versions are another no charge option for going one-on-one with that special someone you meet.

Silver and Gold memberships add several advantages to your dating experience by making all profiles completely accessible and contactable, enabling detailed search options, sending personalized matches by e-mail, granting access to thousands of member videos and posting your profile at the top of search results. Both options come with faster profile/photo approvals and customer support, although Gold obviously always takes the priority over Silver. Gold also grants extra storage space and saved message time, as well as exclusively offering searches of full member profiles based upon keywords. Monthly access costs around $30 US but your enjoyment of the site will increase exponentially.

Visit Adult Friend Finder if you seek both casual acquaintances and more intimate friendships.

AdultLocals.com is a little bit of a disappointment. It joins the multitude of online sex dating sites that promise to deliver real life encounters with people in your area. Unfortunately, if your idea is not particularly original, you have to produce something better — or at least equally as well as the competition. Otherwise, you’ll never emerge from the crowd as a true contender. This site just doesn’t have the numbers required to convincingly guarantee paid subscribers that they are going to get any real bang for their buck.

So what’s a little site supposed to do? We all know that “little guys” normally try to compensate in other ways, be it fast cars or diamond rings. If companies make a big deal out of nothing, they normally do it with a lot of flash and panache. Adult Locals seems to be in denial since instead of using features to dazzle and distract us from the limited membership, the few options that are available only further draw attention to the low membership numbers. For example, the search fields include the gender that you are seeking and whether you are “a man looking for a woman” or “a man looking for a lesbian woman” or “a man looking for a bisexual woman”. Great idea, except that no matter what you put, you get the same results returned all three times. Excuse me, but we’re not amused or confused into thinking there are multiple listings here.

What I found even more annoying was that there was no way to actually narrow down my search to my true local area. I could select state and city but with no zip/postal code “distance from” feature. I ended up with people who were a good 60 miles away. When you put “local” right into your site name, it kind of goes without saying that you should be helping your members target right down to the neighbour next door — not someone two hours away by car on any given day, and then only if the traffic’s good.

The only reason why I would sign up for Adult Locals is if I saw someone with whom I was almost certain something could happen. Strangely enough, you can’t send a “flirt” for free but you can send e-mail. The other member can’t read the message without paying for a subscription though. There is no chat or instant messaging on the site either, so forget about any direct contact — whether you’ve already paid or not. This earned the site a zero on quick contact. Being sure in advance of someone’s genuine intentions would be mostly a risky guess, so if you have nothing to lose and you live somewhere where the member numbers are healthier, you could always take a chance. At almost $25 a month, it seems to offer a less-than-average service for a same-as-average price.

Visit Adult Locals but check out the profiles for free before spending your money.

Single Parent Love Life is one of the slickest ventures into the market for single parent online dating you’ve ever seen. It almost makes being a single parenting seem as glamorous as it is hard work. However, I wouldn’t fault its approach even if it might seem glossy and superficial at first blush. I appreciate any dating site, regardless of its market, that promotes feeling good since no matter what your situation is with dating, online or otherwise, it is best with a positive attitude.

SingleParentLoveLife.com has substance as well a great look. For example, its prewritten descriptions of what you’re looking for are well thought out. You can say that you prefer to concentrate first on meeting someone for yourself before addressing parental issues. You can state you’re looking to create a blended family. You can be blunt about screening any prospective partner before introducing the family. It is also okay to be a single without children on this site, too, but the main focus here is clearly single parents.

“…it’s well designed, appealing and very competitively priced.”

You can skip many of the usual steps in signing up. You will need to provide a decent free-form essay describing yourself and your ideal potential date. You can upload a photo, of course. Any newsletter or other site notices can be deselected if you don’t want to receive offsite mail and you can set the frequency of receiving info about folks who have sent you a smile or added you to their hot list, too.

Making contact on SingleParentLoveLife is straightforward. Other than sending free smiles or adding to your hot list, you’ll need to pay for emails or instant messaging. Unlike some sites, the need to upgrade runs both ways. Both the sender and the recipient need to be premium subscribers to send or receive messages. In its defense for applying this restriction, its monthly fee is considerably less than many other sites. It’s not such a big commitment at currently $10 a month.

The advanced search options are all available even before upgrading. You have results sorted to show only profiles of members that have logged in during the last week. You can also look only for those subscribers that have posted a picture with their descriptions. There is a local search option based on your postal or zip code. Finally, perhaps the most radical for a free access search engine, there are keyword searches offered without paying for an upgrade.

The biggest downside to this site is that it doesn’t have a large database of members that other sites have. This is to be expected from a site that only launched in November of 2006. However, with such a great portal for single parents, we expect this dating site will begin to gain a large and loyal following in the near future.

Finally, any special community based web personals site wouldn’t be complete without a section of articles and subscriber-submitted stories. Single Parent Love Life also includes a special SPLL TV and a SPLL Radio feature for great streaming content tailored to learning to love again as a single parent.

Overall, it’s well designed, appealing and very competitively priced. It’s certainly worth a look if you’re a single parent.

ChnLove.com is not your regular online dating site. Instead it is more along the lines of the now old-fashioned concept of mail order brides. I say such a concept is outmoded merely because things have come a long way during the last 10 years as far as to how a man can meet a potential wife from halfway across the globe. This site works in conjunction with 17 local marriage agencies in 13 major cities in China to facilitate connections via the Internet between Western men and Chinese women, many of whom would not otherwise have the computer skills, language knowledge or access to computers and the Internet to meet someone online. There seem to be many stories of successful matches that have led to long-term relationships and happy marriages.

As a man, the profile process is relatively brief. However, you will be required to provide personal information that you normally wouldn’t on other dating sites such as your real full name, home address and telephone number. The site promises that this private contact information will be held strictly confidential and will only be used with your permission when you engage one of their full services.

“ChnLove is for Western men who want to meet sincere, marriage-minded women from China.”

Currently there are over 3200 profiles of Chinese women looking to meet Western men for long-term relationships on ChnLove. In China, the affiliated marriage agencies which the women make initial contact with forward a photo and personal details to the website. They provide the women with help in translating their descriptions into clear and precise English, so the online information about each female member is well written and easy to understand. It definitely seems to help create a more complete idea of each woman beyond merely a pretty photograph.

On the Western side of things, ChnLove offers several unique services. You can have flowers delivered to the woman that interests you if she lives in one of the major cities serviced by the company. The affiliated marriage agencies will also forward your emails to the women by phone or by standard post after translating them into Chinese. The agencies will also collect the women’s reply and translate them to English and email them back to Western men. Additional services available include advice on helping your new love immigrate to your country from China and help with planning a visit to China to meet your potential partner in person.

Some services, like sending flowers, have a specific additional cost associated with them but most of the communication options are charged against a system of credits on a per-use basis. For example, it costs one credit for each mail sent or received through the marriage agency phone/post mail forwarding system. Credits cost between $4.25 and $6.25 depending on how many are bought at one time.

ChnLove is for Western men who want to meet sincere, marriage-minded women from China. It offers a different way to make lasting connections online.

KoreanFriendFinder.com is specialized in joining singles who enjoy all things Korean together. Here you’re going to find people that share at least a modicum of interest in Korean culture even if they themselves are not Korean. I must emphasize that not only is joining not limited to your being Korean, but there appears to be lots of members who have already joined that are neither Korean nor living in Korea. There are lots of individuals living in Korea who want to connect in a safe and secure way. Also many people who have moved from Korea or who have previously visited the country seek to reconnect with its culture. Others simply yearn to explore something new. The beautiful Korean people offer a special exotic style and unique Asian charm as individuals.

Sign up for free and you’ll immediately be able to look through the ads and even zoom in on few of the ones you like the most. On the search page you’ll always have the option to at least send a wink to let that preferred person know that you are interested in a profile. If you add the description to your hot list, an e-mail will immediately be dispatched to that member’s inbox so your stamp of approval becomes evident. Free contact otherwise can be limited, although you can always e-mail a few individuals and some subscribers pay a special extra fee so they are reachable from any level of membership. Otherwise, in the FriendFinder Network tradition, if you post a truly popular profile you may receive exceptional membership rewards, which could allow you free access to premium services.

Now for the online communication options available to you. First of all, let me mention that Korean Friend Finder is available in Korean as well as English. All links have been translated and anything produced by the site itself has been transposed to Korean, however a lot of subscriber submitted information is in English. You’re going to have the chance to enjoy live chat, post messages in the Groups section and read those from others, and check out an online magazine with articles written by fellow members. Keep up-to-date daily with your favourite real-life personalities by checking out the “blogs” page. If you see an interesting visitor in the online gallery you can send him or her, an instant message for free.

You’re going to make loads of new friends, Korean or otherwise, so you need to have an easy way to keep track of them all. Enter the Network, which is you personalized list of members with whom you want to stay in regular contact. As a group you’re going to be able to share bulletins and special private photo albums. Your online buddies can also add special commentary describing how wonderful and interesting you are right onto your individual profile.

Upgraded memberships of either Silver or Gold provide many advantages beyond the obvious one of unlimited contact with other members. You treated as top in search results and priority queues for customer service and profile approvals too. Gold also offers a unique opportunity to search the member galleries based on keywords. The number of subscribers is less than on some other less specialized sites, so the monthly rates are a slightly lower on Korean Friend Finder.

Visit Korean Friend Finder where everyone who enjoys the uniqueness of Korean culture is welcome.

Asia Friend Finder is a total-package site, but you have to hand over the money before you really get to see what it’s about. This can make anyone new to the online dating scene cringe, but Friend Finder has a track record of producing high-quality, member-driven sites and Asia Friend Finder is no exception.

The profile quality at Asia Friend Finder is extremely high. There are more questions than you could ever need and opportunities to fill out profiles to a greater or lesser extent as you please. The one problem is that you can’t see what other members have written about themselves or what other pictures they’ve posted until you pay for a membership. The only other profiles you will be able to see are those of paid members, but even these have been handicapped in certain ways, such as the inability to see larger pictures, to encourage you to pay for a membership.

Asia Friend Finder looks pretty solid from a visual perspective. There’s a lot going on at times as far as what’s on the screen, and the designers didn’t shy away from highlighting it all through color. The blend of choices doesn’t sit perfectly with my taste, but it’s a subjective area. No matter what your tastes are, however, you won’t find that the presentation gets in the way of your search for love and romance.

“Asia Friend Finder is a quality product at an acceptable price.”

The site scores full points when it comes to local searching. The most accurate local search you have at your disposal as a free member trying to find users in your area is by zip code. Zip code searches should be enough to give you an idea of who is online in your immediate area. You have more options available if you join, such as searches by city, which can be helpful.

It might be surprising to some that a site with so much going on can end up scoring a zero in any category. Asia Friend Finder proves the case by not allowing guest members to view profiles in detail. This is something that usually sets off warning bells. Our criteria says that any site that hides profiles gets an automatic zero as it usually signals a shady site operator. However, in this case, it just isn’t an accurate reflection on reputation. The Friend Finder network has proven itself to be dedicated to providing first-class sites. Preventing guests from viewing other profiles is just an unfortunate quirk. Still, if you’re new to online dating and don’t want to take the chance, this is the time to bow out.

Asia Friend Finder has a very large following online. What that means is that there are enough members on this site to make it worth your time to sign up for a free membership and run some searches for people in your area. That’s the only sure way to see if any site is worth your time.

If your searches on Asia Friend Finder turn up enough results to make a membership worth your while, you can be assured that there’s more fun to be had once you join. The site has built a digital community and included elements such as chat rooms, an online publication, groups and blogs to ensure you’re entertained.

If you are still reading and looking for Asian connections, take a look at the site. Asia Friend Finder is a quality product at an acceptable price. It will take a leap of faith at the beginning, but you shouldn’t be disappointed once you find your footing inside AFF!

ArabLounge.com uses the tag line, “Connecting Arabs worldwide.” The site certainly seems to have its focus and delivers the target market it says it will. Not only that, the site gives you more than enough free access to really get a handle on its value and does so in the confines of a pleasant and impressive site design. Here’s what else we found…

ArabLounge challenges you with an involved profile creation process. Generally speaking, the more info you provide, the more chances you’ll have of catching someone’s interest. This may not seem worthwhile to new users, but you should commit yourself to filling out your profile in detail if you plan on staying for any length of time.

“Arab Lounge is certainly one site that seems to have its act together.”

The worry with niche dating sites is that they don’t have the opportunity to reach the masses like a general dating site would. This site has done rather well. It has a solid following of members, no doubt due to the amount of access it grants users.

As for access, Arab Lounge really lets you get a feel for what’s available on the site. New users can search profiles, see when people last logged in and they can even be contacted by paid members. What you can’t do is search for members closer than 150 miles. This is the one drawback. However, if you pay for a membership, you can be a lot more specific on your search radius.

Pricing for the site is more expensive than average – at least on a one-month membership. You pay an introductory fee of $34.95 that renews at a more reasonable $29.95. You also pay less if you subscribe for multiple months. Price isn’t everything, though, especially if you can serve up a decent amount of members from a specific demographic for any given area, but it’s certainly worth mention when other sites often charge significantly less.

The search options available to free members are limited compared to those of paid members. It gives you the basics: seaches by distance from your location, age, profiles with pictures only, etc. As mentioned, though, 150 miles is the narrowest search you can perform. However, if you decide to buy a month or more of access time, you can select from a plethora or criteria that you, and hopefully most others, filled out when signing up for the site.

You will have more than enough free access to ArabLounge.com to make an informed decision on its worth. As a free member, you can surf and sort through members with no limitations. You can even receive and respond to members who contact you. What you can’t do without paying is initiate contact, post on the message boards or see who has viewed your profile. Although important and interesting features, the limitations imposed by ArabLounge on its members are few and inconsequential to the decision making process.

Arab Lounge is certainly one site that seems to have its act together. It gives you all the tools and information you need to make an informed decision about how much it has to offer and that goes a long way to suggesting that this site is even worth the extra money they’re asking you to pay.