Adult Friend Finder - review

Unquestionably focused on the more erotic end of the market, adult friend finder is a pretty pornographic site and you need to be prepared for explicit imagery as soon as you finish registering. If this is what you’re after however, it’s certainly a more active and interesting member area than you get with some competitor services. It’s also one of the better established sex dating providers in the UK, though this is not necessarily a sign of quality in and of itself.

It is an entertaining site to be on with a lot of features and activity. Live stream Web cam chat rooms, lots of mini porn videos that the site claims are from its members and a Facebook style activity log that is full of fresh material – again largely nudey pics and vids. There is also a magazine and a forum section where groups of interest can get together and swap… again mainly nude pics.

The big question with much of the large amount of content on display is: how genuine is it? A lot of the content is designed to get you to subscribe to the product. For example, if there is a sexy video on the activity stream, you are usually asked to subscribe before you get to view it. The content does sometimes look too good to be true: lots of women online willing to share a great deal of themselves with casual visitors – this is extremely unusual.

Adult friend finder is run by Friend Finder Networks inc based in Sunnyvale USA. It was launched in 1996 as a social media enterprise, but quickly focused in on dating as its core business. They have a whole string of similar sites and claim 180,000 new registrants a day over all of them put together.

Registration is very quick and you can be inside the site within 3 or 4 minutes. They do require that you write just a few sentences about yourself, which is unusual for such a service, but hardly taxing…  

There are lots of matches on display on a search, but once again, the women look too good to be true. What’s more you can’t even see their profiles properly without subscribing.

There are lots of free features on this site that allow you to enjoy some of the pornographic content and read through the forums without having to shell out a bean. However, when it comes to actually contacting other member or even viewing their profiles, subscription is required. Prices are on a large sliding scale, with the cheapest payment being for about £2 to see a profile. However, the entry price for actually being able to communicate with your matches is around £15 for a month, which is mid-ranged compared with other sex daters.