How do you safely find a local sex chat group on Telegram?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is safely find a local sex chat group on Telegram.

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

I gave sex chat about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring sex chat:

• How much of the sex chat profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether sex chat has real users outside the big metros
• Whether telegram is the reason sex chat feels inconsistent

Any first-hand experience with sex chat would help more than another list.

Worth splitting sex chat into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

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

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

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datewander itself solved the messaging-paywall part of sex chat for me last year.

To build on OliverH's answer about sex chat: The cheap test for sex chat is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with sex chat here is genuinely useful.

My sex chat experience hinged on telegram more than on the platform itself.

Elijah Scott, that's roughly where I landed on sex chat too. Broadly with you on sex chat, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

For anyone else researching sex chat, I would put the Turndate threads on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Depends what you mean by sex chat, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

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

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