Im Live has come a long way from a web cam chat site. These days you can talk to all kinds of people about anything on Im Live. Signing up is easy and free, simply pick a login name and password, provide your e-mail address, and you're all set. And then you can hook up with cam operators located around the globe. These are independent people who are, for the most part, working out of their homes, and you can watch them on cam and talk to them live. You don't need a cam yourself to participate, but if you have one, you can get into some pretty hot two-way action.

Once you sign in, you can choose from a number of options as all of the cam operators are divided into sections. For gay men there's Guy Alone Straight, Guy Alone Gay, and Guy on Guy. But there are also a number of other categories that might interest surfers with broader ranges of interests like Role Play, Gender Benders, Fetish and BDSM, Threesomes, and of course, they have a host of straight oriented sections as well. Each section shows you how many cams are registered and how many are actually live at that moment.

Once you've chosen a section, you're presented with the guys who are live. You'll see a picture, a short bio, and then, there are links to additional photo galleries containing both soft and hardcore pictures. So you get a better idea with whom you'll be chatting. And they have a neat feature where you can talk for free with the models before you actually plug in with their cams and start using your membership time. That's a bonus because there's nothing worst than paying to talk to someone who you discover isn't your cup of tea. So this allows you a bit of text preview to see if the cam operator is going to "do it" for you. If I'm going to be paying someone to call me a dirty pig boy, then he'd better be able to deliver the goods.

And Im Live has a pretty good selection of cam operators in their gay section. As I'm writing this review it's 4 p.m. and there are already 50 cam guys online, which I think is a pretty good selection. And there's some nice variety, too, from pretty blonde boys to hulking muscle men and a few hairy guys, Asians and black guys sprinkled into the mix. But I like checking out the straight guys, too, sometimes they're more fun. And of course, you can always pretend like you're a woman if you really want to get them going for a bit of fun, although I don't think they mind too much showing off for gay guys.

A lot of the cam operators have recorded sessions that you can watch. Sometimes I'm really not in the mood to talk someone, but I just want to watch them jack off, so this is a perfect feature. But the live chat sessions are pretty cool, too, a lot less bother than getting all gussied up and heading off to a bar.

And Im Live is not all about sex on cam either. They have a number of cam operators available to chat with you about all kinds of things: if you want computer help or advice about setting up your own website, coaching and self-improvement, learn more about playing poker, cooking, health, diet, exercise, and they even have therapists on cam.

Bottom Line:
Talk to a wide variety of people on cam about everything under the sun from cooking to what gets you off. And you don't even need a webcam.