What are some of the best Backpage alternative websites?

FizzyFrog

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I remember the site Backpage from years ago, which allowed escort ads. It was like Craigslist but more geared towards sex workers than even CL was.

I know the government seized it a few years ago and I've never seen any sites like it ever since. Sometimes I see ads on Reddit and what not.

But just wondering if there are Backpage alternatives I'm missing?
 
Well yeah there has been quite a lot of websites that have picked up where Backpage left off.

Just off the top of my head, Bedpage, YesBackPage. Backpage Girls, Skip the Games.

There are also more sex worker-positive sites like Tryst and escortbabylon.net, Erotic Monkey, etc.

A lot of these sites are based overseas, so not as much hassle with the US government.
 
Yeah Backpage was killed because they had years of problems with the government.

The Feds basically said shape up or we're going to destroy you.

Craigslist is still around, Backpage is history.

'I fought the law and the law won.'
 
I thought the whole Backpage debacle was because of people getting trafficked?

From what I've read the operators did everything they could to comply with the law and turn over traffickers to the police.

But it wasn't enough. Because apparently some victims of trafficking sued Backpage and eventually got a 215$ million settlement for what happened.
 
Yes there were victims of human trafficking, and it did happen because of the Backpage website. But I don't believe the website was actively supporting illegal activity. In fact, I've read Backpage was very cooperative with the government as regards reporting suspicious ads to the police.

In the end, they got them on the charge of facilitating prostitution and not specifically trafficking, minors, and everything people THINK they did.

Here is an interesting writeup of how shutting down Backpage only seemed to hurt sex workers and didn't do much to stop trafficking.

While I was sorry to hear of the victims's stories, Backpage wasn't directly responsible for that, in my opinion. At least any more responsible than Facebook or YouTube is for all the murderers who posted videos on the sites.
 
The problem has always been when they keep prostitution illegal in every single case, there is very little protection for sex workers. Thinking you can "stop" this profession from taking place is naive.

They pick on the websites, like Backpage, because they're the easy ones to point to.

But if you compare states like Nevada, there is far less crime involving escorts, because they are protected by police and it's a legitimate transaction.

I've heard all the arguments, so I understand why some people want to keep it illegal. But I'm just saying picking on the websites that facilitate it is a low blow and it doesn't help anyone. It certainly doesn't stop trafficking from happening.

That's why there is protesting happening across multiple countries, which relates to how the governments continue to treat sex workers.

It's so strange to me how the Nevada government can make this so simple, but the rest of the US is so confused about how it should be handled.
 
As long as the escort sites are hosted in another country, there won't be any Backpage like scandal.

The only problem is when sites in the US host escort or prostitution ads, and then get the attention of everyone. Although I do believe some US based sites are still operating, probably just using a VPN.

You can pretty much host any kind of site safely if you have a reliable VPN, an anonymously purchased domain and hosting site (or a server you own yourself) and an separate encrypted email account. I know a little about this stuff because I once talked to a guy who claimed he was from the FBI and had info on BigFoot records. But he turned out to be a fucking loony.
 
Yes Backpage was shut down in 2018 but the US government was gunning for it a long time. And it's not even a butthurt conspiracy to say Attorney General Kamala Harris shut it down. Her office prosecuted the founders of the site and wanted to make an example so they could tout Harris' tough-on-crime character.

So it wasn't really shut down by just a sex-phobic conservative base. This was a joint effort by both parties, (which happened during the Trump administration) because they all got it in their heads that they were combating sex trafficking, which is of course a bad thing.

The charges Harris brought against the site never even went to trial. It just started a domino effect that culminated with the government seizing the site and then sentencing the owner to five something years in prison.

But here's the thing and I know we were talking about this earlier, is that Backpage always cooperated with authorities to stop and prosecute real drug trafficking.

So when they shut it down, guess what happened?

It became twice as hard to actually fight human trafficking, because there was no more big site helping the investigation. Now all the johns and prostitutes (who you're never going to stop, btw) had to use smaller and more risky webpages just to find their favorite sex workers.

Now there are no leads to investigate any underage or coerced prostitution because it's all just hearsay now, and most of these creeps disappear before you can even arrest them.

So yeah a lot of sex workers are not fans of Kamala or the Trump or Biden administration, because they did nothing to help and only did stuff to actively hurt the industry. In fact, early Kamala actually said that all sex workers should be arrested, at least before she campaigned for president.

The point of all this is, if anyone were really serious about protecting sex workers they would decriminalize it, so that official businesses and police/government authorities, and workers could work together and help each other in an organized capacity.

Keeping it illegal has only made things worse.

So yes, you may notice sites like SkipTheGames or Yes Backpage popping up and only because they're not hosted in the United States. In theory the US could try to sue the websites to shut down, but that's unlikely.

Backpage just fought too hard against people who were determined to destroy it, because they hate the idea of paid sex.
 
Well yes, you fight against a government that wants you dead the Constitution doesn't matter anymore. They're going to find a way to get you. I mean why else do you think BigFoot hides from the mainstream?

But here's what I don't understand. Why are OnlyFans girls and porn stars and cam girls allowed to sell their bodies online? Why are escorts on Tryst or EroticMonkey allowed to sell their "time" (which usually involves blowjobs, I mean what else can two strangers do for 30 minutes together, right?) and yet only prostitutes are punished for it?

I heard something about an OnlyFans girl having sex with 1000 men in a day or something like that. And maybe I am a little jealous of that, you know of all the guys because I don't like women too much. But you can't tell me that THAT isn't solicitation. She was definitely staging the whole thing for profit and as a stunt to make more money on OnlyFans.

No one sleeps with 1000 people unless they are expecting a massive pay off.
 
IDK maybe bc it hurts a woman's feelings to say I am paying you for sex. It's like I might spend 200$ on dinner and a movie, but it's not like I'm saying I expect sex afterwards. It has to be something she wants to do. I spent the money just because I like hanging out with her.

So basically I paid her for her time, didn't I? Not for sex.

And escorts on Escortbabylon.net or EscortAffairs are just cumming out saying they want 300$ for a blowjob or whatever. That's probably what Backpage was doing wrong. They advertising prostitutes and not escorts. Escort don't got to have sex with you, it's just if she's bored or is like what the hell, yeah I'll do you buddy!

But that's not for $$$$. That's just out of the goodness of her heart.

If a girl is hard pressed for cash then don't tell her to suck your dick for money. Maybe give her 20$ for food and say when you get back on your feet, I'll take you out to dinner?

BTW, I don't think of RubMaps as a bad thing. Those masseuse people gotta put their hands all over some guy's hairy back and legs and butt crack and it's like, why not make another 80$ with a handy? It's already a gross job, might as well make some extra money and make him feel real good.
 
Ummm yes, well I suppose I agree with that, MILFNite. :LOL:

Anyway, in principle it all makes sense. No women should be coerced into doing something she doesn't want to do. But real life is complicated and sometimes trafficking is a real problem that happens.

But again, why destroy sites like Backpage that were doing everything possible to combat trafficking?

Even today, if you read the fine print of Backpage alternative websites like Bedpage, Yes Backpage, Skip the Games, thescortdirectory or any others, they all have statements saying if you suspect someone is posting this ad in a state of duress (I forget the exact terminology) but basically you can report them.

And that is all ANY site can do, really.

There's no magical way to track and arrest someone for using a legal website for illegal and illicit purposes.

Adult Friend Finder and Ashley Madison and other dating sites also have a report button, for prostitution and of course, for human trafficking. But let's face it is VERY hard to catch traffickers, to convince the victim to come with you to police, and to track down the SOBs doing it.

It was all a noble attempt that backfired and kinda screwed over the sex worker industry.

But yeah OnlyFans is doing good, I suppose. Probably because, as BigFoot alluded to, OnlyFans is about selling online nudes and videos. And that's not technically solicitation of sexual services, at least in person.

Weird loophole. But porn stars can legally film scenes because they're just having sex with each other, and supposedly not being forced.

Although that brings up how many porn stars were mistreated during their careers, and that is another Pandora's Box to open, believe me.
 
I have compiled a few extra Backpage alternatives for escorts and miscellaneous categories.

  • Yes Backpage​
  • Bedpage​
  • HarlotHub​
  • SkipTheGames​
  • Erotic Monkey​
  • Escortalligator.com/listcrawler.eu​
  • Thescortdirectory.com​
  • escortdirectory.com​
  • Rubmaps​
  • SkipThegames​
  • Tryst​
  • Escortbabylon.net​
  • Slixa.com​
  • EscortsAffair​
  • Rubratings: national​
  • Ourhome2.net​
  • Theotherboard.com​
  • Bestgfe.ch​
  • Tnaboard.com​
  • The Erotic Review​
  • P411​
  • Eccie: mainly Texas​
  • Ampreviews​

And if I find anymore I'll post them here. Interesting discussion. I didnt know a lot about Backpage before.
 
Seems to me to be just like Anime Girl said.

All these small shady sites popping up instead of just Craigslist or Backpage, which were more popular and WATCHED sites.

So you go from popular sites that everyone keeps an eye on (for trafficking and other shit) to not knowing where the hell to find escorts, so you go to the deep web (very unsafe) or some small sites like the above, who no one has ever heard of.

I know sometimes when I surf new websites I get a warning from my system saying the site is trying to harm my computer so I can't even use most of these new escort sites. So yeah ever since Backpage plummeted it's all a shit show now.
 
I used to go on Adult friend finder and found plenty of escorts to meet. Sometimes even the occasional horny housewife cam to my inbox who wanted to meet without even getting payment - a huge dicpic on your profile can help here. I am talking 10 years ago, so not sure if this still works as well as it used to but I used to have a grand time on AFF.
 
JustJim said:
I used to go on Adult friend finder and found plenty of escorts to meet. Sometimes even the occasional horny housewife cam to my inbox who wanted to meet without even getting payment - a huge dicpic on your profile can help here. I am talking 10 years ago, so not sure if this still works as well as it used to but I used to have a grand time on AFF.
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good call but I doubt Adultfriendfinder is sitll as popualr as back in the day honestly. haven't heard of it in a long time, I guess it's not very active anymore.
 
XCams - not a big site, but they have a decent cam-to-cam feature in their private shows. They have fair pricing and a good variety of performers. Worth a look if you want something different!
 
HighStrangeness said:
good call but I doubt Adultfriendfinder is sitll as popualr as back in the day honestly. haven't heard of it in a long time, I guess it's not very active anymore.
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no way, I used to use AFF like 10 years ago. It's not as solid as you'd think honestly, wouldn't go there anymore, there are better sites like backpage out there,
 
escort directory is one of the best sites like backpage I've encountered, straightforward, good choice in profiles. I had some good escort experiences on here so far!
 
MockMuse said:
XCams - not a big site, but they have a decent cam-to-cam feature in their private shows. They have fair pricing and a good variety of performers. Worth a look if you want something different!
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Oops I might have messed this up. You were talking about escort sites rather than cams, my bad. In that case I'd recommend Doublelist as a backpage alt site. Pretty good selection in busy areas mostly, great place to find escorts online.
 
I heard about Obackpage but I've never used it tbh, I usually find escorts more easily offline than online but that's probably just in my city.
 
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