Collarspace website is an online dating platform for BDSM enthusiasts. Visually looking like a dinosaur from another era, this site is not completely hopeless. Today, we review Collarspace to find out if we could satisfy our kinks there.
Collarspace website
Collarspace presents itself as a safe platform for like-minded people. The website claims that Collarspace is the largest online BDSM community in the world, with over 3,800,000 monthly visits.
We are going to evaluate Collarspace in five categories, Affordability, Audience quality, Interface, Security/privacy, and, most importantly, Hookup chance. For each section, we are going to assign a rating ranging from 1 to 5. Hookup Chance will be determined by the combination of all scores and answer the question – is it possible to find a date on this website?
Affordability
Collarspace is entirely free to use. After completing the registration, we didn’t have any restricted actions on the platform and could freely view images and chat with other members.
Audience quality
Collarspace community counts over 1,600,000 members from all around the world. Though the service is more widespread in the US – 56% of users based in this country. The rest of the site’s population is evenly distributed among other continents. This ensures that most of us will have a high chance to find a physical encounter on Collarspace.
Through our testing, we found that at any given time, there are a lot of users online, and we always had many options when it came to choosing whom to write. The website features manual registration confirmation which, requires users to wait up to 48 hours for their profiles to be approved. In theory, it should ensure that there are very few bots, spammers or fakes.
However, we found that most 
people we contacted ended up to be either “findommes”, who offer dominatrix experiences for money or straight up bots. There are users of all ages here, so you cannot recommend a site of a certain category of users, for example, to those who are looking for free milf hookup.
- The platform is visited by millions, which contributes to a wide choice of partners.
- Over half of the users are from the US.
- Despite manual account confirmation, there are many spammers and bots.
Interface
As much as we would like to, there are not a lot of praises we can spare for the visuals of Collarspace. The website’s design looks like it came to haunt us right from the early two-thousands. The website does not stretch or compress to fit your screen width, navigational elements placed in random places, and tile-type buttons with text downsized so much you need to squint to read it. It makes using the website a nightmare.
At least, after getting used to the look, we found that the website presents wide options for profile customization, most of which are already tailored for the BDSM theme. When setting up the profile, we were glad to find a large number of options that allowed to set the type of partner we were looking for as well as specify sexual orientation.
We didn’t find any elements of the design that could distract us from the content, such as pop-up screens or intrusive banner ads. Also, there are no special elements for chat rooms, as in any sext site. We found that the menu on the left-hand side of the screen was mostly for navigation through the website, while the most real estate was dedicated to a detailed search and a list of currently online members.
- The website looks like it came from an ancient era of the internet.
- The navigation through the website is confusing.
- Despite the poor design, user profiles are informative, which is a big plus.
Security and privacy
Collarspace requires all users to register before they get full access to their accounts. All new accounts on the platform are manually approved by the moderators who should ensure a high-security level.
However, while registering, we didn’t need to connect our social media accounts and didn’t need a valid email address, which significantly reduces the security of the service. Something that we soon confirmed by running into scammers during casual use of the website.
While fiddling with the settings, we didn’t find a lot of privacy customization options. It means that all information entered on the profile page had to be visible to all users. At least, there is an option to make the profile invisible.
- All new registrations have to be manually approved.
- There is no email confirmation.
- Users can register without social media accounts.
Hookup chance
Using the website, you can find a date who shares the same interest as you, but it won’t be easy or pleasant.
Collarspace is accessible thanks to the lack of paywalls. Being an older platform, it earned wild popularity over time. However, outdated user interface and a high number of scammers who take advantage of the free platform ruin the experience for people, trying to engage in the community and use the website as intended. Though creators tried to enforce regulation via manually-confirmed registrations, the measure failed.
In the end, because the platform is so popular, we found that it is still possible to hook up with real people, especially if you are from the US. Just expect to fight off waves of scammers along the way.