Big Muscle Bears Review

Costs:

Membership is free. No monthly membership fee.
Purchase extra features to enhance your membership with hot features:
- Front page profile: $25.00
- Certify your profile: $20.00
You can also donate to the site and get extra features (suggested donation of $40.00 per year). Donate by:
- Mailing a check
- Credit card:
  - Visa
  - Mastercard
  - Discover

Features:

All members get free access to the following features:
- Profiles. Create a profile, fill in your details and upload up to 9 photos (maximum upload of 3 photos per day).
- View the profiles and email addresses of other members.
- Add your own events to the events calendar.
- Update your profile and receive 'modified' status.
- Send up to 10 short messages per day to other members. You can send additional messages once your originals have been read.
Donate to the site and get all of the above, plus:
- Prevent your personal email address being viewed by other members.
- Send unlimited short messages to other members.
- Add private notes to other members' profiles that only you can read.
- Change your username whenever you like.
- Upload up to 27 photos to your profile (maximum upload of 27 per day).
- Advertise your travel plans with the 'Away' feature.
- See who has viewed your profile over the last 24 hours.
- Review the profiles you've visited over the last fortnight.
- Add captions to your photos.
- View photos of people who've added you to their 'I like' list.
- Be notified of who''s on your 'I like' list when browsing.
- See who likes you when browsing member profiles.
- Perform searches within the members on your 'I like' list.
- Access your message history of communication with other members.
- Get mobile SMS notifications (a fee applies each time you receive a message).
Alternatively, become an Admirer and get access to profiles and email addresses without having your own public profile.
Add hot features to your account (fees apply):
- Front page profile. Get your profile put on the front page of BigMuscleBears.com.
- Certify my profile. Get a stamp that certifies your profile is genuine.

Performing a Search:

There are two types of search you can perform on BigMuscleBears.com:

Simple search:
- Search by entering keywords
Advanced search:
- Username
- Email address
- Name
- Postal code
- City/Town
- State (US & Canada only)
- Country
- Age range
- Height range
- Weight range
- Waist size
- Chest size
- Arms
- Relationship
- Gym name
- Leisure activities
- Keywords (for searching the comments field)
- Area code
- Last time accessed profile.
- Filter your results by:
  - Members with a web address
  - Members currently online
  - Members with a voice recording
  - Members with a video recording
  - Members with Instant Messager id

Editor's Verdict:

BigMuscleBears.com is a companion site to BigMuscle.com, begun as a hobby by Canadian couple, Bill and Andy. Because it’s a small-scale operation and not a devoutly commercial venture, it’s a little less polished but this is counterbalanced by the friendly community feel of the site.

Whereas BigMuscle.com specialises in more muscular guys, BigMuscleBears.com features hulking hairy guys who pump iron. So, expect to see chunking-great man mountains with handlebar moustaches and a head of hair that extends right down to their butt cheeks. If this all sounds like your kind of thing then get to it and register now. It’s free to register and basic membership is free. All you need is a few minutes to complete the application form and a valid email address. You can choose to create your own profile and upload pictures, or simply become an admirer of the site. Becoming an admirer means that you choose not to have a profile but just receive access to member profiles and their email contact details. Unless you’re a big hairy guy yourself then you’re going to opt for the latter type of membership, as it obviously would be against trade descriptions to post a profile if you’re a hairless, insipid beanpole.

Once you’re up and running, you can get straight to browsing profiles or take the time to craft your own profile (if you register for a profile account). You’ll find literally thousands of profiles on the site, but just a few hundred online at a given time. It’s therefore likely that many of the profiles will be inactive (a common problem with free dating sites). However, you can check to see when profiles were last modified which lets you know whether they’re still active or not. If you’re looking for a great big hairy man then chances are you’ll be more successful if you focus on recently modified profiles. Whilst the free membership is fairly generous in comparison with free basic memberships on other sites, you’re limited to sending just 10 emails per day to other members. The profiles are a little blinkered in their attention to physical appearance and gym activities at the expense of fleshing out other facets of personality. The profile pictures are just about large enough so as to get a good idea of what the members looks like. If a member has upgraded their membership then their profile picture will expand when you hover over the thumbnail. You’ll also find intro videos on some profiles.

Talking of upgrading, whilst the site is ostensibly free, you can get more features if you pay the modest fee to support the site, which arguably still qualifies it as a free dating site. It’s fairly unlikely that most members will find the need to send more than 10 emails in a day, but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility. Therefore, if you’re a prolific social networker who is determined to get the most out of the site then maybe you should consider paying for the upgrade. You’ll then get unrestricted access to email. You’ll also get profile enhancements, including being able to upload more pictures, create a favourites list and being able to see who’s looked at your profile. Importantly, you’ll also get enhanced advanced search tools in order to save time on your browsing by pinpointing exactly the kind of guys you’re looking for. You can also save your searches. There is a FAQs section where you can learn all about the different levels of membership and a support desk you can email in order to resolve any other queries.

BigMuscleBears.com is unique in that it’s a site devoted to large, hairy gay guys for chatting and dating. Whilst you’ll find better sites with more active members that feature the category of muscle bears (e.g. Manhunt.net) it’s great to be able to visit a site that features muscle bears and nothing else.

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