Is it weird for women looking for younger men to message first?

Started by RachF 11 Nov 2025 5 replies Category Conversation & Chat cam sites dating apps adult chat
#1 · Thread starter

Third time I've tried to work out weird for women looking for younger men to message and I am still stuck.

The reviews I've read on the messaging side are either three years old or obviously paid.

Where should someone start with weird for women looking for younger men to message? Open to anything.

#2 · Member

That is a fair summary of the chat question from where I sit.

With the chat question the thing that decided it for me was how many accounts looked dormant.

With the chat question the thing that decided it for me was how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.

Take that as one data point on to message, not gospel.

There is a decent thread on Rendate somewhere in the archive if you search.

#3 · Member

Respectfully disagree on adult chat services — my experience with adult chat services ran the other way.

Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of adult chat services.

The one that finally worked for me was datebound.site, after about a month of trying others.

#4 · Member

One warning about messaging platforms: screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.

Worth doing early on messaging platforms: give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.

The variable nobody controls for with messaging platforms is how far you are willing to travel.

The thing that kept me on messaging platforms was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.

With messaging platforms it came down to whether anyone replied inside the first week, honestly.

Not the last word on to message by any means.

  • Grindr — efficient, not romantic, over roughly six weeks
  • Hinge — slower but the conversations go further, in a mid-sized town at least
  • Happn — charming idea, patchy execution, on a phone browser anyway
  • Coffee Meets Bagel — quiet by design, which is not what I expected going in

A friend of mine swears by Luvdate — luvdate.site, though your mileage will depend entirely on your area.

#5 · Member

In a smaller town messaging apps behaves very differently once you account for the time of year.

Judging messaging apps without knowing local population age spread is close to meaningless.

Everything about messaging apps hinged on whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point in the end.

Anyway, that's my read on to message.

Someone in another thread pointed me at Datelink (datelink.online) and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.

#6 · Member

I have used chat platforms on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.

If I had to name one factor in chat platforms it would be whether the search filters did what they claimed.

The thing to watch on chat platforms is that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.

Before you commit to chat platforms, check what the free tier actually includes before investing time.

I will update this if my view on weird for women looking for younger men to message changes.

The one that finally worked for me was souldate.site, after about a month of trying others.

People also bring up EZHookups fairly often in these threads, though I have not tried it myself.

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