Dating

Big Church offers online Christian dating and fellowship. Members can also search for prayer and Bible study partners in their hometown or worldwide. With an ever expanding membership and all the features of the secular sites, including email, instant messenger and chat rooms, as well as searchable Scripture and Bible commentary, this is a one-stop shop for Christians seeking like-minded individuals for friendship and marriage. Sign up for a free trial membership to get started and use their very precise search function to find a friend in faith.

The Internet has changed the face of sex, turning your formerly taboo cravings into everyday fare. Enter ALT.com where alternative lifestyles of every stripe are the norm. There’s a heavy leaning toward BDSM on ALT.com (if you don’t know what that is, you’re not ready for this site) and you’ll find plenty of playmates ready to indulge. Begin with a free trial membership and a polymorphously perverse sign-up form will help you get started. Email reports from Love Dog arrive with your matches and there’s even an online fetish magazine to keep you entertained.

This is the place for adult alternative “dating” or at least to meet others who share your lifestyle and preferences. Chock full of wild people with wilder fantasies, you can place your profile online and view others’ profiles (many with no-holds-barred pictures) without charge. You don’t have to register to use the personals, but you will need to sign up and to contact others through the private and anonymous mail service.

Another excellent, full featured dating services with the all-important freebies: it’s free to post your profile, search and browse, just subscribe when to respond to messages. The super cool Agent of Love emails you matches and the Bio-Match system helps to determine compatibility based on your criteria. The search feature is one of the best on the net, allowing you to search by everything from ethnicity to income. No “adult” content here; the motto is “If we can’t show it to Mom, don’t post it on the site.” Ready for some good clean fun?

Mingles is a free online community where you can find friends, love or just have a laugh with other singles. Personals, chat, photos, voice messages, anonymous email, matchmaking, mingling, forums, hotlists, and more make this a great site for everyone. PhotoChat uses the picture from your profile, so when chatting you can see who you are talking to instead of having to go back and search for the person. Mingles forums give you a place to talk about whatever’s important to you and meet others who share your interests.

Touted as the world’s largest sex and swingers personals website, this is the place to go if you’re looking for a little fun. Nude photos abound, and there’s a category for about everything I can think of that’s legal. Given the nature of the site, you can chat and email anonymously, or be daring and reveal your true self. Take a tour, take the always fun Purity Test; most of all, take a deep breath, drop your inhibitions and dive in headfirst. It’s quick, easy and free to sign up. Everything goes here, so you might as well let it all hang out (so to speak).

Matchclick is an easy-to-use site with oodles of singles just a click away. Sign up, post your profile, browse for a date, and you’re in business. Live chat and instant messages, as well as a terrific search engine for compatibility make this site a winner. If you’re not ready to jump in, have some fun with a basic geographical search for men or women from the home page and see pictures and comments from thousands of singles in your state. It’s not a bad way to spend a Saturday night, but sign up and post your own profile and you might just get a date!

Hosted by the same folks as friendfinder.com, this site is for Asian singles and the people who want to date them. Easy to use, multilingual and jam packed with almost six million members worldwide, membership is free and fully featured. Just click on Join Now to post your profile and meet other singles. Chat rooms are geographical and topical, so if you want to “hang out” with singles from Hong Kong or Singapore, you’ve come to the right place.

Friendfinder boasts over three million active members. That’s a whole lot of singles and sure enough, whenever I sign on, there are at least a couple thousand members online. Friendfinder has one of the best trial memberships allowing you to post your personal ad with photo or (gasp!) video. Different chat rooms are arranged according to interest, with everything from friendly chat to very adult late-night play. Clicking on “Join Now” takes you to the free registration form where you can get into the swing of things right away.

Megafriends is an inclusive online dating and friend-finding service for singles, couples, straight, lesbian and gay. The personals are easy to browse and arranged by states in America, by province in Canada and by country for the rest of the world. You can include education level, body type, language spoken and even type of relationship you want (including "secret affair!) when searching. You have to sign up for the free membership to see complete profiles and to place your own at Megafriends. Once you sign up, you can also use the chat rooms and send messages to other members.