Plan mini vacations to big USA cities like LA, New York City and Miami. If you can travel internationally for business plan stops in London, Prague, The Netherlands and Luxemboug. The variety in the listed cities is stunning. Get you fill in one of them, then patch in a decent local provider in between. I have no intention of getting married and don't want to lead women on that I do, meeting beautiful providers meet my sexual needs and allows me to focus on professional pursuits at all other times.

From my experience, many of the web based dating services are indeed scams.  ESPECIALLY the ones that flaunt hot pics of women.  These of course are fake profiles, and I think that most regular women get intimidated by them, ironically.  So not only do you not have a chance with these fake profiles, but very few regular women are going to participate.

More regular sites like Match and others like it, have women expecting the world.  Many very plain looking and boring personality women, who are quite self-consumed, for some reason get the notion that they are a hot commodity.  I chalk it up to the feminist era, that has brainwashed women into thinking that they are "it", and many simpish dudes who have also bought in, and lick their boots.

Anything substantive is going to require a give and take on both sides.  Too many people of both genders, seem unwilling to really grasp this.  And since we are immersed with a gender war, that has made every bit of conversation fall into gender politics, it's quite difficult these days.

Here's my take on dating websites, based on my experience with AFF.

There are a number of real women who are members of dating websites because, like you and I, they are interested in hot sexual encounters with strangers. But I have heard that the number of men vs. women on most sites is something like 12 to 1.

It will take some serious effort to get a date on such a website. My estimate is that about one in ten women replied to my introductory message to her. Taking that one step further, about one in ten of those who replied resulted in an actual date. So, translating that into real numbers, after a few hundred initial contacts, I met four ladies.

I can make two generalizations about the women I met. One, I would not rate them between 7 and 10 on the "TER attractiveness scale." Bear in mind, I am in my fifties, so the women who I met were also in their fifties, and have not taken care of themselves as well as the fifty-plus ladies I have met though TER. Nice ladies, but not strikingly beautiful. Two, all of the women I met love sex. I should repeat that. They all love sex. I still see one of the four a few times a year when I travel to her town.

So I think the dating sites work if you are willing to put in the effort. To look at it cynically, remember the TER mantra - "There is no such thing as free sex." Whether the cost is cash, effort, time, independence, sanity, etc., you are going to pay some way or the other.