A small, quiet house. Every account is read by a person before it opens, and members meet each other properly rather than by swiping.
Photographs are for members. Nothing is shown to the open internet — not blurred, not partly. Members see the people; nobody else does.
Message any member directly from their profile. Conversations stay on the site, where the house can see that everybody is behaving.
Nobody joins automatically. Every application is looked at, and the house says no when it should.
There is no checkout on this site and no card is ever charged here. You pick a term, we talk, you settle it however suits you, and your membership is opened by hand. It is slower than a payment page and it is the reason nobody is ever charged for something they did not ask for.
Two things, for as long as the term runs: photographs, and the ability to write to anyone listed here. Nobody outside a membership is served a photograph at all — not blurred, not partly, and there is no preview standing in its place. Messages stay on the site rather than moving to somebody’s phone, and the house can read a thread if it has to. That is the whole list. Nothing else on the site is opened by paying.
The terms are on this page, each with its length and its price, and the longer ones show what that works out at a month. No figure is written into this answer on purpose — the house edits the tiers, and a price typed into an FAQ goes stale without anything failing. The BEST VALUE mark is arithmetic rather than a claim: it lands on whichever term is cheapest per month, so it follows a reprice by itself. Applying costs nothing, and looking stays free whether you join or not.
You pick a term and press Join. That records a request — it takes no money, opens nothing, and can be undone. Then you message the house, settle it however suits you, and the term is opened by hand once the money has landed. Nothing on this site can charge your card: there is no checkout, no payment processor, and no card or bank field anywhere in the database. One request at a time, and while yours is still waiting to settle the page offers to cancel it. Once we have recorded your payment that button goes — tell the house instead.
No, and it cannot. Nothing is stored that could charge you — there is no card on file because there is nowhere to put one — so a term simply ends and nothing happens. Every term is granted by hand, after money has arrived. If you arrange the next one before the current one runs out it extends rather than replaces: the new term starts the day after the present one ends, so nothing is lost by sorting it out early.