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This site offers a high-quality dating service for maried folks to hook up for affairs and other fun activities.
Ashley Madison is an adult dating and personals site with the tagline 'Live is Short. Have an Affair'. Furthermore they say they are "The most recognized and reputable extramarital affair company. Our married dating services work. We are the most successful website for finding cheating partners". So this is definitely an 'adult' dating service and not your typical mainstream ones catering to single people looking for relationships. The guest side of things starts with free registration and then they use a credit based system for members to send messages, emails, and interact with other users. Credits are purchased in packages and then there are set costs for each feature.
So this isn't your mainstream personals that you see commercials for on TV. Ashley Madison is adult themed and more specifically for married or attached people looking for affairs. They community has lots of profiles and most have pictures with people looking for sexual encounters of all different varieties.
The member's area is simple and easy to understand with a member profile that can be edited and built with text and photos. The search includes a basic function and a more advanced search tool with all sorts of filters to find specific types of people or encounters. When browsing the profile list they show one photo, an online/offline icon to indicate user status, and a good little profile synopsis.
There is a useful 'Help' page with a lot of FAQs that answers user questions about site tools, costs, profiles, mobile access, dating tips, and other items.
This is a typical set-up for a personals site like this. Upon landing on the tour you have to register for a free account to get around and check things out. Unlike other mainstream personals site that have monthly memberships Ashley Madison is built around a credit pay-per-tool system along with some services that are monthly. What you can do for free are search, wink, reply to member messages, and create a favorites list. Using the various services costs credits so yoiu pay for messaging other users, chat, gifting, and then you can get a priority listing (this is a monthly fee). Mobile access costs extra. Basically Ashley Madison's pricing is activity based rather than all inclusive for one monthly charge.
User photos vary. There are some profiles without photos or others that blur or block out part of their faces since this is an adult affair site.
Ashley Madison's theme is for people looking to cheat and have affairs. That's a nice sub-niche in the personals niche. The site has lots of members and is easy enough to use. The pricing has some monthly services but basically it's free initial guest registration and then each user feature for contacting and interacting with members cost credits which are purchased in packages and stored in your profile account. Price for users will vary based on your activity and what features you're using and how often.