This is really three sites in one, kind of like Lavalife where you have three areas: Dating, Adult and Alternative - Domination, Bondage and Sado-Masochism
When you’re setting up your profile you can choose if you want your profile posted on one or all of there different sites. You can choose Dating: where you can find a pen-pal, friend, date or more. Adult is for pure sex, swingers, group sex and discreet encounters. Finally there is the Alternative area where people who are into Bondage, Domination and Sado-Masochism hang out. I did find one thing odd about the profile set-up. It appears, if you join the dating site, your ad is automatically posted in the Adult and Alternative section as well. You must click on the “Hide Profile” button in the edit Adult and Alternative section if you don’t want it listed.
I’m not really into the Adult or Bondage scene, so to be totally honest with you, as I was filling out my profile I felt like I was in New Orleans, walking to my favorite Jazz club and feeling a bit uncomfortable as I walked past all the strip joints. IwantU.com has something for everyone… I guess.
As you fill out the profile you can tell the system it how often you want your matches emailed to you. They call this automatic process their Aphrodite, which in Greek mythology, means Goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.
IwantU.com has a popularity voting system, ala “Are you hot or not” where other members can vote for your profile. You can also be paged or text messaged when you have email waiting for you in their built-in email system, so you don’t have to login just to see if you have email waiting. The site also supports Hot List and Ignore Lists to make it easier to organize your contacts. You have the ability to post your own photo albums, each album can hold 32 pictures each and you can have 10 albums or galleries. You can also post a voice greeting so people can hear the sound of your voice.
So, I filled out my profile and started on my journey to find a date for the weekend and to my surprise, you are not even allowed to read a person’s profile if you’re not a member. The site makes you purchase tokens in order to do just about anything. So, if you’re too cheap to spend $24.95 on the chance you might meet someone, skip this site.
I purchased my 4,000 tokens for $24.95 and started off by browsing the dating site for thirty-something women in Southern California. Like most sites, most of the profiles do not have pictures attached, so I find it difficult to view the quality of the members.
I will tell you, this site, in my honest opinion, is really a adult playground. Look at it this way, it has three rooms: dating and romance, adult and adult alternative. So 2/3rd of the activity is about Adult Play. So if that is what you’re looking for, this is the place. The site has a lot of extra features they place in their “Cafe”. The Cafe has “Chat Rooms” where you can join in group discussions. The rooms with the most activity appear to be more explicit (xxx) - The Bar (Looking for a one night stand), Motel Suite (Relationships, Dating, Foreplay, Sex and Kama Sutra) and the Red Room (No moderation, pure sex talk). Yes, they have other rooms, more PG13 or R rated, but it I never see anyone in them.
They have Live Cams, where members can broadcast their web camera to anyone who wants to view it, while a group chat room is active. So you see pictures and people typing things like “take it off” and “move your hand here or there” I don’t think I need to say more, do I?
They have moderated and non-moderated Message Forums, where people post all types of questions asking for advice. The non-moderated rooms appear to get about 10x the postings. To give you an idea of the types of postings you’ll find, the most popular topic in the sex forum (which has the most postings) was a response to the question, “Where’s the wildest place you’ve had sex?” I think it’s always interesting to compare notes and see what other people think, especially when it comes to sex. I couldn’t help but notice it appears the men post about 5 messages to every message posted by women.
From the Cafe you can send Post cards to people. All types of post cards, get well, thanks, birthday, holidays, love friendship, erotic, etc… It’s a cute idea, I’m not sure I would send my girlfriend (if I had a steady) a valentine’s day card from this site. I did send a Erotic card to Barbie as a joke, so it did serve a purpose for me.
Another interesting feature in the Cafe is their Party Posting message board. Here members can post invitations for people to attend a “get together” based on the location where they live. Most of the parties are on the East Coast. Most of these parties are just a couple of people trying to hook up for an orgy.
From the Cafe you can also set up your account to receive matches via email. You can also view the Top 100 IWantU.com profiles. I think this is a cool idea, I just wish they included additional information on the screen when showing the photo. It would be useful to see their age, location and what they’re seeking (friend, dating, etc…) Generally speaking, they don’t excel in the layout of their HTML.
They also allow you to play games from the Cafe, however none of the games were Multi-player, so I really don’t get the point.
As I moved around the site, I really came to the conclusion this is an adult dating site. The dating and romance “section” has a lot of nice people, with sincere dating goals in mind, it’s just at every page on the site there was a link to view adult content. For example, when browsing the top women dating profiles, I was just one click away to see the top women profiles in the Adult section. This is the perfect dating site for open minded adults.
