LiveToLives calls itself “the place for people to enjoy conversations and fun times,” which is a pretty fucking bold statement. I’ve lived on this planet for decades and have had tons of conversations and fun times along the way, but I never even heard of the website until today. It ain’t too different from the braggadocious marketing I see on all kinds of websites, but it really got me wondering: what if they’re right? What if I’ve been talking and enjoying myself wrong all these years? Fuck, I might be on the cusp of some world-changing shit, but there’s only one where to be absolutely sure.
I’ll be honest, it wasn’t really the adspeak out front that got me interested in LiveToLives.com, but the traffic these guys are pulling. They were only getting a couple hundred thousand visits a month back in April, but those numbers were well over a million by August. This new social network is promising instant and easy chats, and it sure seems like people are flocking to join the conversation. Let’s see if I can meet anyone as freaky as I am.
Go Live to Lives and Live to Love
As a professional porn reviewer and world-renown masturbator, I’ve seen all kinds of chat sites, webcam sites and hookup sites. One thing they all typically have in common is how hard they use sex to sell you on a signup. The landing pages are usually covered in pouty red lips, stock art of good-looking couples embracing, girls in their underwear, and sometimes even boobies on the sites whose whole brand image is trying to look filthier than the other guys.
By contrast, the tour page at Live To Lives looks downright wholesome. If somebody hadn’t told me I might be interested in the service, I don’t know that the preview would have convinced me. The presentation is professional and clean as hell in multiple ways, from the impeccable layout to the totally SFW and sexless user photos. I mean, they’re decent looking folks, but they all look like they’re ready to hop on a Zoom meeting for work.
“Chatting online is everyday normal now, but some feel unsure about meeting new people like this,” reads the front-page text. “Meeting anyone, anywhere, for the first time can feel a little nervous – but that’s all part of the excitement! So don’t worry, join LiveToLives, and start having fun with new friends now!” They go on to list exactly two simple steps to your first conversation: (1) add new people to friends, and (2) get loads of new chats.
There’s a little bit more text, but that’s really the whole gist of it. Their strategy is just to nudge you toward the COME SAY HI or WANNA CHAT buttons, which both lead to the same place. They finally show some sexier GIFs of chatting members once you choose your sex, and then ask you to sign up for an account when you try to start a chat.
The best news, though, is that LiveToLives.com does offer a free trial to help get you hooked. Personally, I would have led with the free trial and the sexy girls, but what do I know? I’m just the successful smut peddler who runs PornWebmasters, PornDudeCasting and ThePornDude. Maybe the clean, SFW landing page is part of their branding, or maybe they’ve figured out it’s a better lure for their prime demographics. Whatever the case, I was ready to try it out for myself.
Getting Inside with Live to Lives
The whole vibe changes once you actually get inside at LiveToLives. Vibe shifts can be a good thing or a bad thing, but in this case, it’s fucking fantastic. The tour page makes it seem like a platform to meet your favorite new coworker to share spreadsheets with, but inside, it feels more like a webcam sex site. In other words, it’s my kind of joint!
They told us out front that Step One was adding new friends, but you can actually skip that, too. I started getting friend requests from chicks right away, taking the pressure off me to do it myself. There’s also a Random button that functions like a chat roulette, but hopefully without a dick in the middle of every cam.
The penis cams shouldn’t be an issue here because LiveToLives knows I’m a dude. Taking a look at the Top Profiles, I see nothing but women, so they already know what I’m into. The one disadvantage to this setup is that there’s currently no option to set your sexual preferences. If you’re a dude, you’re going to see chicks. Tough shit if you’re gay or into trannies.
If you’re dude who’s into women, though, you’re going to like what you see. There’s a beautiful range of women doing live video chats on LiveToLives. There are purple-haired punk rockers, big-titted MILFs, fitness sluts and PAWGs. I see Asians, Latinas, black girls, exotic mixed women and a ton of pretty white girls. You can hit the Video Call button with any of the online girls, or add them as friends.
I’m reviewing the site on a Friday evening, and there are a couple dozen women with an ONLINE badge above their faces. The rest are offline, though I can add them as friends. While it’s a decent spread of live babes, I am hoping for the site to get more popular so that range expands even further, similar to the cam sites with hundreds of models at any moment.
Live to Lives When You Love to Live
By the time I was ready to chat, I had a ton of friend requests. In fact, it seems like every girl who got online sent one. The problem was that so fucking many of them are bots. Approve a friend request and they will send you exactly one message, usually asking to chat, but will not communicate further. They won’t respond to messages nor video chat requests. It took a lot of tries before I finally got a girl on webcam with me. She was only interested in chatting and wouldn’t show me anything naughty. “This site is for dating,” she said, “but some people do other stuff, too.”
It was that other stuff that I wanted to see, and the next chick came through. LiveToLives.com lets you give monetary gifts shaped like roses, fruits, diamonds and teddy bears, like a lot of webcam sex sites. I found those gifts very useful for getting a better, sexier show.
The bots turned the friending system into a pain in the ass, but the Random chat button did a much quicker job of connecting me to a pretty lady on the other side of the world. Still, I found that many of them were only interested in chatting with their clothes on. I did end up having a very nice webcam chat with a Colombian girl named Kim, who got totally naked and fully went to town with a dildo. “You like it, daddy?”
Live To Lives has a built-in translation feature that really comes in handy. While I struggled with my sloppy Spanish, the girl giggled and started typing to show me how it works. That’s also how the Russian lady told me she was only here for talking, no sex, before she shut the chat window.
Is this really a social network, or is it a webcam sex site? The women who wouldn’t show me anything make me think it’s the former, but the other girls watched me jerk off while showing me their buttholes. I wouldn’t call it a dating site, because you can’t run a search by location or even list your own. To me, LiveToLives seems like a cam site built to look and feel like a social media platform. The question remains: does a friending system make a cam site more fun, or only more complicated?
I’d recommend taking advantage of that free trial to get a peek at this one if you’re into one-on-one cam chats but looking for a new twist on the format. LiveToLives.com adds some nice little wrinkles you don’t find on most cam sites, like the random chat feature. Since there aren’t any big public sex shows, you’re also going to get a lot more attention from the girls than on the big cam sites. They’re a new site and still have some a little polishing to do, but there’s a lot of potential here.