I have been testing dating sites for a report for a magazine article and decided to sign up using the photograph of an ape and using ape attributes during the sign up process. Lo and behold, female Sexsearch members have contacted my bogus ape persona over 100 times in just over two months. I have written to the website and told them of my findings. Initially they replied to my message and were appalled that I could be scammed (I had yet to inform them of the ape experiment). When I mentioned that I was a reporter and that a bogus and clearly phony account was created, the next message had the writer appalled at me for doing the experiment. Suffice to say, the site is without a doubt a scam. There are true online dating services out there that do work and do connect people but this one is not one of them and should be avoided at all costs.
P.S. The article will be appearing in SPIN magazine (yes, a music magazine doing a non-music article, how novel) in December's issue.
I have met plenty of nice, attractive women from sexsearch.com and even met 2 after just briefly chatting with them on the i.m. feature. No problem here.