First step, kiss. Second step, tell.

Ladies can now share all their salacious dating details with their closest girlfriends on Luluvise.com, a social network exclusively for women.

And in a gimmick that should make any man with a Facebook account sweat, women can rate the men they’ve dated on their manners, attractiveness and sexual prowess — with all results displayed publicly.

The brainchild of Canadian-raised entrepreneur Alexandra Chong, 30, Luluvise (Lulu for her nickname and vise for advise) aims to mimic the patterns of close female bonds online.

“Life is pretty fast paced and it’s just tougher to get together,” Chong said in an interview from London. Luluvise gives women that experience online, and in a few weeks, on a mobile app.

“You can have your girlfriends in your pocket,” Chong said.

Dubbed a “blond bombshell” and one of London’s most eligible startup CEOs by Real Business, Chong got the idea for the network after a particularly successful Valentine’s Day date two years ago.

Frustrated with the amount of effort it took to spread the scoop to her best friends (three phone calls, two Skype sessions and dozens of texts), she decided to create a platform to share gossip in one go.

Chong’s network, which launched Tuesday, not only attracted $1 million in funding from high-profile venture capitalists, but also garnered her a visit from British Prime Minister David Cameron last week as part of his “tech city” initiative.

The network could be an advertising goldmine if it attracts enough users. It’s targeted at 18 to 35-year-old women — the demographic deemed social networking “power users” by Pew Internet research.

Chong envisions partnerships between the site and major brands such as L’Oreal, in which users would dish on mascara or lipstick. Thousands of women from 69 countries have signed up since the launch, Chong said. The average woman has just 4 to 8 friends in her “inner circle,” Chong explained. Women can send photos, texts and polls to their BFFs to get immediate advice.

The most popular feature is undoubtedly Wikidate, where women rate the men in their lives and publish their opinions for all to see — without the men’s knowledge.

“It’s the intrigue and interest — sex sells,” Chong said.

While hundreds of poor men have already been outed as bad kissers, Chong defends the tool. Such evaluations happen anyway and the questions are “lighthearted,” she said.

“The balance is trying to make sure it’s not an evil tool — it’s not going to ruin anyone’s life,” she said.

Men can request to have their reviews removed, Chong said, and the site does not allow for public commenting on men’s profiles. Luluvise is incorporated in the U.S. and operates within its privacy laws, Chong added.

Canada’s privacy commissioner has yet to look into Luluvise, said spokeswoman Anne-Marie Hayden, but referenced the office’s high-profile tiff with Facebook.

“Two significant themes that came out of the Facebook investigation were transparency and control,” Hayden said. “Does it give individuals the ability to control personal information about them on the site?” she said.

Although Wikidates is the “pull” to the site, Chong believes women will stay for the meaningful and efficient interactions with their closest friends.

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“It’s going to catch on like fire for sure,” said John Pliniussen, associate professor of internet marketing and innovation at the Queen’s School of Business.

He drew parallels between Luluvise and Facebook’s origins. Facebook was originally a site where people could vote on who was more attractive. Harvard forced Mark Zuckerberg to shut it down.

But the real question, Pliniussen added, is can Luluvise can convince women to stay once the novelty wears off.

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