Alt.com

ALT.com has been online since 1999 and has always catered to the alternative lifestyles crowd, specifically those into various forms of BDSM. The community is very large, with more than 2.1 million members and growing. Like all online community and dating sites, not every profile is real or who they really say they are. You should always be careful and take things with a grain of salt. But just because there are a few phonies in the room doesn't mean you shouldn't go in. If that were the case, we'd never leave our houses to begin with.

In terms of networking, the site has a system somewhat similar to what facebook and myspace use. You create a profile and can fill in as much information about yourself as you feel comfortable doing. You can also put some limits on who can see what of your information and your uploads. Members are free to upload their pictures and movies, explicit or not. To date users have 2.3 million pictures online and over 5 thousand video clips!

Now, you'll need to get a Silver of Gold membership to see others profiles. The free sign up just lets you create your own and navigate through the site. You won't be able to do much in terms of interaction. You can sit in on the chat rooms though and talk it up with others. You won't able to see the profiles of those you talk to though so again, just sign up if you want to try the site out and get a paid subscription.

You can stream members videos online and browse through their galleries. Even better there are live webcams. These are real users with interests in fetish and BDSM action that are streaming from their computers around the world. Most are going to be men, but you do have women and couples as well. Sometimes they are just online to chat and wank off, other times they are doing their own shows with BDSM, domme and other fetish action.