How do you find a strictly local sex chat where you aren't just talking to bots?

I've spent about three months poking at sex chat and I still don't have a clean answer.

Every comparison of sex chat I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

What I'm trying to weigh up with sex chat:

• How quickly sex chat puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• How sex chat treats strictly once you stop paying
• Whether strictly makes any material difference to sex chat
• What the strictly side of sex chat looks like in practice
• Whether anyone has tested strictly properly on sex chat

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about sex chat.

Someone recommended Flamedate to me during my own search around sex chat and it was better than I expected.

Test strictly first, because it tells you more about sex chat than any feature comparison will.

OliverH, that's roughly where I landed on sex chat too. Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with sex chat here is genuinely useful.

It's telling how many replies here about sex chat contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

For me the strictly side of sex chat was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

I'd qualify this: sex chat works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

There is a version of sex chat that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

the Rendate free tier is what I ended up using while working through sex chat — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Adding the Datenest free tier to the pile for sex chat, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Depends heavily on strictly — take that out and sex chat becomes a much easier call.

Since we're comparing options around sex chat, the Datingfly community came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Turndate's free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of sex chat for me last year.

Anything promising instant matches around sex chat is worth treating with suspicion.

If you go down the sex chat route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

Datelink.online comes up a lot when sex chat gets discussed elsewhere.