Shemale Love Search is an online dating site with all the usual features of most dating sites, plus a few extras for its premium members. Although before you pay you are faced with extremely limited access, one good thing I can say about filling out a free profile is that you do get immediately to do advanced searches that narrow your results with great precision, not just by distance, but other specific characteristics, such as other members' likes and dislikes. That definitely helps you decide whether you can find anyone on the site before having to spend any money.

Once, you retrieve the results page for your local area, you can read all the details of that person's profile, but I only seemed to find one profile that listed the last login date. I'm not sure why that is, but I do know that there is a way for premium members to block their visibility online. You can only see the main profile pic without being a paying subscriber, otherwise to see additional photos you need to upgrade. I found that many profiles kept the info to the bare minimum required. Only your age, location, what gender you seek and a brief 50-word write-up are mandatory to provide upon joining.

There is no free way of communicating, other than the usual free 'flirts' that most sites provide. For instant messaging, sending and receiving email, as well as participating in the members' forum, all require that you upgrade to a paid subscription. That seems to hamper seriously your chance of meeting someone, as it doesn't seem that as a paid member you can talk to free members. If both members have to pay before they can connect, then loads of opportunities will go wasted I'm afraid.

Upgrading on ShemaleLoveSearch does have other benefits however. You get access to some porn with your premium membership, including smut such as about 15 tranny vids, at least five full-length shemale DVD titles. You can check the list of those flicks out by clicking the link to each area. Sometimes, you get the upgrade prompt and sometimes you'll get a preview of the content instead. There are some T-feeds as well, which I wasn't able to preview without upgrading first.

Overall, the site lacks visitors when you check out its stats on one of those independent traffic-ranking sites, such as Alexa.com. It isn’t that surprising as not allowing any communication between paid and free members never does much positive for a web personals sites. Shemale Love Search needs to work on attracting more members and should consider allowing free responses to premium members' messages.