I have used recon for several years and, like every site it has its peculiarities, its plusses and minuses. Unlike the negative reviews I have not had trouble asking tech support questions, even though they are an ocean and a continent away.
like all sites, they tend to have users concentrated in certain areas (fortunately, including mine) and weak on other areas of the world; also they are a bit "provincial" in not understanding that US states are not like separate countries and metro areas cross state lines; these are minor criticisms and other sites have issues like these (hint: search by zip code / postal code)
There are a lot of men using the site (hint to critics - look at that number. a bad site will have few users), and fortunately they understand that a individual may have more than 1 fetish so they show your user chosen preference first, then all users in order by last logon in new users, etc. function
it does have additional functions like the top 100 most visited users and the top 100 most seen pics; they keep you Posted on Leather events (the main focus), there are different ways to explore; but getting down...
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