DV Expose: How I Learned to Stop Using Adult FriendFinder and Love Craigslist

Replace the "Friend" with "Escort"

Adult FriendFinder has, for better or for worse -- which is to say, worse -- basically turned into nothing more than a gussied-up escort service. This wouldn't be so bad if AFF were more up front about this, but many a lonely middle-aged man have gone searching through AFF's database, looking for a similarly lonely and middle-aged woman, only to find a bunch of internet prostitutes who might, if bribed correctly, give away a few minutes of ridiculously dispassionate sex.

It's not that paying for sex is wrong, of course, or that it can't be satisfying; it's just that AFF doesn't claim to be an escort service. It's supposed to be a place for sex-starved adults to meet and fuck, but it's basically just a big prostitution ring now. It's kinda like one of those singles chatlines you see advertised on MTV at 1:30 in the morning; it promises social interaction, sex, and potential emotional fulfillment, but only delivers on one. And you usually have to pay. 

Wikipedia never lies...

...And Wikipedia has some interesting things to say about Adult FriendFinder. 

AFF has one of the most extensive advertising programs on the internet. A key feature of their online advertising system is pictures of attractive women supposedly living local to the website user. This is achieved by IP-localisation software.

On the AFF website (as with many other similar sites) some advertisers use faked details to entice others, including fake photographs. Some of the photographs known to have been used include those of well-known porn stars and similar.

There is some controversy over the true ratios of male to female members. A velocitypress.com study showed that the male-female ratio is 10 to 1, that 2/3rds of the claimed subscribers have not visited the site for over 3 months and that nearly half of the women were angling for lesbian relationships. 

So, if you're a woman looking to make out with another woman, then AFF's your best bet. Since you're at DoubleViking.com, however, I can only assume this is not the case.

Craigslist does what AFF don't

Where Adult FriendFinder consists of a pay-for-popularity search engine system, a very specialized theme, and more whores than you can shake a goddamn whore-beating stick at, Craigslist is 100% free, includes offers and requests for pretty much everything you could want, and has a relatively lower whore quotient. If you wanna meet up for a date, Craigslist has you covered. If you just want to have sex, that's what the "casual encounter" area is for. Craigslist has pretty much everything a lonely, horny man could desire, and you don't have to feel like Eliot Spitzer to use it!

Craigslist can certainly be called a creepy, unfiltered window into the oddest, most disgusting parts of human nature, but one thing it can't be called is a whore headquarters (a whorequarters, if you will). Craigslist is one of the most popular online communities in the world, which means you've got a much healthier chance of finding a woman who legitimately wants to meet up for a date and/or sex than you would with a specialized, commodified whore search engine owned by the Penthouse Media Group. Everyone is on Craigslist, ergo some of those people might actually want to have sex with you. Not all, granted, but some. Still, you'll have to be very careful to avoid some of the creepier, more perverted Craigslist casual encounters.

I can't goddamn find it anymore, but I'm positive there was some dude about a year back who wanted another guy to go to the premiere of the Transformers movie with him so they could give each other dueling blowjobs once Optimus Prime appeared on the screen (he mentioned that he had a rather rough beard, but would be willing to shave it if the respondent found that to be a turn-off). Just in case you're new to Craigslist and need to arm yourself against the rising tide of creepiness and fisting, you might wanna check this article out before signing up.

Still, even with all the pregnancy fetishists and cross-dressers and Transformers BJ fans, Craigslist is a much better bet for getting laid without having to literally pay for it. It's a more honest, more universal, slightly creepier method for people to hook up with other people, without one person giving money to the other person.

Adult FriendFinder may have really great-looking banner ads with young models and porn stars, but trust us -- they're full of shit.