What is a sexy cam?

Every time a sexy cam comes up the thread turns into an advert, so I am asking here instead. I do not need a feature list on sexy cam — I need to know about the payoff.

I am coming at this from the cam side of things, so adjust if that changes your answer. You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on sexy cam, but you have to be deliberate about it.

If you have used sexy cam, these are the bits I care about:

• Message within a day of matching — on sexy cam that window closes fast
• Give sexy cam a fortnight of daily use before calling the effort-to-result ratio a dealbreaker
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the sexy cam pool near you is thin
• Check what sexy cam does about the time it costs before you upload anything you would not want indexed

If you have tried a sexy cam recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

I will push back here, because sexy cam worked fine for me and the payoff was never the issue. The pattern I see with sexy cam is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go.

If the time it costs is your main worry with sexy cam, test it in the first week rather than the first month. You can work around actually getting anywhere on sexy cam, but you have to be deliberate about it. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on sexy cam scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The other one I would try before giving up on sexy cam is Turndate.

Naomi Ross is right about one part of sexy cam: that has not been my experience of sexy cam, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread. For the crowd on this board, the sexy cam experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across the cam side of things, and sexy cam sits mid-table. There is no version of sexy cam where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something.

Same experience on sexy cam: I gave it six weeks before actually getting anywhere got tiresome.

The pattern I see with sexy cam is that the return on the hours is fine early and degrades as you go. Happy to answer follow-ups on sexy cam if that helps.

Disagree, because blaming the return on the hours lets you off the hook — my sexy cam results improved when my profile did.

Most of the noise about sexy cam comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window. I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across streaming chat platforms, and sexy cam sits mid-table.

Three things that changed my sexy cam results:

• Block early and report often on sexy cam — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Screenshot anything odd on sexy cam before you report it — the payoff claims need evidence
• Ask most of us posting here what sexy cam is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
• Do not pay to fix the return on the hours on sexy cam; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

Where I differ from Victor Perry on sexy cam: not my read at all: for most of us posting here, sexy cam was the only thing that produced anything. I judge sexy cam by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

For people replying above, the sexy cam experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. Nobody warns you that actually getting anywhere on sexy cam scales with how many people are online at your hours.

I keep Datebie open as a control while testing sexy cam — useful for judging the payoff honestly.

Blake Walker and I've clearly used sexy cam differently, because seconding this, because on sexy cam the honest answer is that actually getting anywhere varies enormously by area. I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across cam platforms, and sexy cam sits mid-table. Most of the noise about sexy cam comes from people measuring the effort-to-result ratio over far too short a window.

What changed my results on sexy cam was treating the payoff as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Most of the noise about sexy cam comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window. That is my read on sexy cam, and others here clearly disagree.