The heart wants what it wants — whether it’s a special someone who gets along with your friends and family or a glamorous and timeless ’80s haircut.
While dating apps like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge may be the biggest pools for wholesale, bulk swiping, there’s a long tail of niche options for daters who already know exactly what they’re looking for.
So, whether you can’t live without a partner who loves death metal or need to marry your fellow millionaire, there’s a dating app or site that caters to your very own, very specific community of singles.
Here are ten of the most unusual dating services online right now
Each to their own.
A dinner date with an attractive stranger can be stressful enough without considering life-threatening dietary restrictions. Enter ‘Singles with Food Allergies,’ a $14.95-a-month subscription dating site for people who share your same food allergies.
Individuals with food allergies
A dinner date with an attractive stranger can be stressful enough without considering someone’s life-threatening dietary restrictions.
Enter ‘Singles with Food Allergies’ (SWFA), a $14.95-a-month subscription dating site to find a relative who shares your same food allergies. ‘Celiac and sexy?’ Asks for site details. ‘Dairy-free and dynamic?’
‘You’ll never find more divorced, never-married or widowed people whose lives have been affected by food allergies,’ boasts the site’s founder Matty Thomas.
Thomas created SWFA to meet a need in his own allergy-challenged life after divorce, but the creator’s recommendations to new members did not reveal some unrelated, less laser-specific expectations.
‘Write the whole word,’ suggested Thomas, ‘not IM slang.’
It’s tough for singles everywhere, but the geniuses behind Ugly Schmucks reckon ‘especially if you’re like many of us who aren’t attractive.’ But, as one reviewer pointed out, Ugly Schmucks doesn’t require email confirmation, leaving it open to fake accounts.
Ugly Schmucks
It’s tough for singles everywhere, but the geniuses behind Ugly Schmucks reckon ‘especially if you’re like many of us who aren’t attractive.’
Schmucks describes itself as the ‘elite ugly dating site’. The Pitch is an online community ‘for people who feel awkward or uncomfortable in their own skin’ – and who love them, because they ‘value real personality over outward appearance.’
The site also says it’s ‘exclusive’ but, as the Loving.is dating database points out, Ugly Schmucks doesn’t require email confirmation to register and doesn’t verify photos. Naturally, this has left the community open to fake accounts with its mission statement, which is already ripe for fun.
Or, as one user wrote last summer, ‘So weird that only good-looking people are on this dating website?’
Mullet Passions by Michael Carter promises to connect you with singles who will adore your lustrous locks. For daters who can’t wait to see their future soulmate’s mullet in motion, the site offers a 24/7 ‘mullet lover’ webcam, with the caveat that ‘no sexual content or activity is allowed’.
Mullet passion
Business in the front, party in the back.
Whether your long-maned, short-topped hairstyle is a nostalgic throwback, a cheeky come-on, or your go-to hairstyle since 1985 without a hitch, Michael Carter’s Mullet Passions promises to connect you with singles who’ll love your shine. the lock
For daters who can’t wait to see their future soulmate’s mullet in motion, the site offers a 24/7 ‘mullet lover’ webcam chat, with the stark warning that ‘no sexual content or activity is allowed.’
Carter’s Mullet is one of more than 260 sites in its Passions Network niche dating community, including sites for lovers of Star Trek, scuba diving, Green Party, Wiccans and hundreds more.
Carter founded Passions in 2004 after hosting a general dating directory, listing the many side streets of online dating.
‘I wanted to find destination sites and not just run a directory that sends people to other sites,’ says Michael.
Another follicle-based, Carter’s specialty, Stache Passions promises to help singles find partners with the facial hair of their dreams. The site even has mustache subgroups, so singles can ‘browse for their preferred type of ‘stache, whether it’s a doll, a walrus or a pencil’.
Stache Passion
Another follicle-based Carter specialty, Stache Passions promises to help people find partners with the facial hair of their dreams.
Stache Passions even has mustache subgroups, so singles can ‘browse to find members of their preferred type, whether it’s a doll, a walrus or a pencil.’
Like Mullet Passions, the site offers 24/7 webcam chat for those who need to get live-streaming confirmation of what’s going on with their potential partner’s upper lip. Again, of course, ‘no sexual content,’ no virtual mustache riding allowed
Some pet owners will swear that their animal is a great judge of a person’s character, but few dating sites make that test process more clear than datemypet.com. Every pet owner on the site has one strict rule: ‘If you want to date me, you have to date my pet’.
My pet date
Some pet owners will swear that their animal is a great judge of a person’s character, but few dating sites make that test process more clear than datemypet.com.
No one wants to bring someone home, only to find out they’re allergic to dogs or their cat can’t stop hissing at their new potential mate.
With a broad mandate, datemypets.com hopes to be ‘not just another dating site,’ but a community for all pet owners who are ‘looking for love or friendship.’
It will even accept members who don’t have pets, as long as they remember that, when bumping, every pet owner on the site has one strict rule: ‘If you want to date me, you have to date my pet. .’
Clown Dating promises to match any aspiring ‘clown lover’, ‘clown wannabe’ or professional working ‘clown’ with their perfect, red-nosed goofball, which can be a challenge for touring performers.
Clown dating
Some people are afraid of clowns, but the premise behind clown dating is that some may want to love one, or may be excited to face their fears.
The dating site promises to match any interested ‘clown lover’, ‘clown wannabe’ or professional working ‘clown’ with the perfect, red-nosed goofball, which can be a challenge for touring performers.
Honestly, it’s impossible to underplay the international community that clown dating has brought together.
Profiles include residents from around the world, from Madagascar to New York; Along the French Riviera from Nice to Doha, Qatar.
Clown dating site notes, ‘Being on the road all the time makes finding someone close, but connecting with members from towns and cities around the world has never been easier.’
Founded in 2001 by UC Berkeley graduate Jason Du, MillionaireMatch was the first site to emerge with the unique premise of helping wealthy people find each other. So, naturally, it came out of Silicon Valley’s dot-com boom
Millionaire Match
By Internet standards, seeking to date exclusively within your own, elite, seven-figure-and-above tax bracket sounds positively vanilla, but MillionaireMatch’s unique selling point is that it gets there first.
Founded in 2001 by UC Berkeley graduate Jason Du, MillionaireMatch was the first site to emerge with the unique premise of helping wealthy people find each other. So, naturally it came out of Silicon Valley’s dot-com boom.
Premium users are asked to submit a state-issued ID, tax returns and property information to prove their millionaire income claim.
‘I was curious why so many of my friends and colleagues, who were very successful people, were still single,’ Du said in a 2015 interview.
‘When I asked them, they said: a) they were too busy, b) it was hard to find people who matched their criteria and c) they didn’t want to date gold diggers.’
For verification, Premium users are asked to submit not only a state-issued ID, but tax returns and property information to prove that their millionaire income claim is true.
Passive assets, however, require a dater to have an annual income of at least $200,000 to qualify for the ‘verified’ badge.
Metal Dating promises to connect single hard rockers, not only with dedicated profiles and messaging, but also with the opportunity to start a blog or post shows to an event calendar to broadcast your favorite bands and music.
Metal dating
If you want to rock’n’roll, it’s a long way to the top, as AC/DC once sang. And it can be way lonely without that special someone.
Metal Dating promises to fix this, not only with dedicated profiles and messaging, but also with the opportunity to start a blog or post shows to an events calendar to broadcast your favorite bands and music.
One woman jumped into the ‘success story’ section saying she found her ‘ultimate soul mate’ on the site.
‘Fast forward a bit,’ he wrote, ‘and we’re talking about getting married and buying a house together.’
Nothing is more metal than home ownership.
The unsentimental, Darwinian premise of Can Do Better is that you want to let an anonymous jury of your peers decide whether you or your partner are in a higher league. The site’s voting system has been providing rigorous truth since 2008
You can do better
Let’s say you’re not single, but looking to move on.
The unsentimental, Darwinian premise of Can Do Better is that you want to let an anonymous jury of your peers decide whether you or your current partner are in a higher league.
Formed closely with Web1.0 staple ‘Hot or Not’, the site that inspired Mark Zuckerberg’s site before Facebook, Can Do Better’s voting system has been delivering hard truth to its users since 2008.
‘We understand that singles search for quality, not quantity,’ said Dino Luzzi, CEO of Blast Applications Inc. when the site was relaunched in 2010.
‘CanDoBetter.com Increases Your Chances of Finding the Right Dating Partner.’
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