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Some of you may care about the outcome of the upcoming Super Bowl (unless, like many, you're already convinced of the grossness of both teams and are rooting for Legionnaire's disease). However, as always, cheating website Ashley Madison is asking the tough questions: who would married ladies rather do, Eli Manning or Tom Brady? Oddly, 54% of women picked the doofy Manning because of his supposed "boy next door" looks. Shutdown Corner theorizes that ladies might also feel threatened by sleeping with a man who's also been with Gisele Bundchen. Sadly, Ashley Madison did not calculate the percentage of women who would rather contract Legionnaire's disease than have sex with either quarterback; we suspect that number might be high. More »
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When 44-year-old Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the ruling provoked protest and calls for her release worldwide. Now Iranian officials have indicated that they may bend to international pressure, but they won't let Ashtiani go, they'll just hang her instead of stoning her. More »
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Scandal-ridden anti-gay Minnesota politician Amy Koch has had a rough few days. First, news of her extramarital affair with her married staffer broke. Then, she was forced to resign from her position as state Senate Majority Leader. Now, it seems that the gays of the land of 10,000 lakes have seen the error of their marriage ruining ways, and one of them has written an apology letter so cold, it will you give your nipples frostbite. More »
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It's possible that Ashley Madison thought they would actually attract new clients with last week's offensive ad, but with this followup — published in today's New York Metro — we're pretty sure they're just trolling. More »
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My name is Jacqueline and I am the model seen on the Ashley Madison ad that was recently published in the New York Metro newspaper. More »
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Adultery website Ashley Madison further classed up its image today with a post-Halloween campaign implying that a) fat people are scary and b) you should cheat on them. Want some rationalization? The company's CEO has buckets of it. More »
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Well, it was bound to happen: two online advice columns received — and published — the same letter today. Their different responses provide a window into the columnists' psyches. More »
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Florida Republicans haven't done this country many favors, but one, Rep. Ritch Workman has taken up a surprisingly sensible cause: He wants to get rid of several ridiculous, outdated laws, including one that makes it illegal for unmarried couples to live together. Unfortunately, his fellow Republicans are expected to fight him to prevent Floridians from sinking into a state of moral depravity. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5836431&view=rss&microfeed=true The female half of the spouse-dumping, Sunday-Styles-reader-scandalizing couple says, "We just wanted one honest account of how this happened for our sakes and for our kids' sakes...There was nothing in the story we were ashamed of." More »
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Italy's highest court has annulled a marriage for adultery, though the wife just told her husband she'd considered having an affair. She was also denied alimony because she'd discussed the idea of having an open relationship before the wedding. More »
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Iranian authorities have reportedly ordered that Sakineh Ashtiani be executed for adultery tomorrow, and protesters are mounting a last-ditch effort to save her. More »
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Iran's chief prosecutor says Sakineh Ashtiani could still face stoning for adultery. This contradicts a report that the stoning had been canceled, and President Ahmadinejad's statement that the sentence "was made up." More »
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For the first time in a hundred years, a woman is on death row in Virginia. Now Iran is calling the US hypocritical for its objection to the execution of Sakineh Ashtiani. Are they right? More »
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has offered asylum to Sakineh Ashtiani, the mother of two initially sentenced to death by stoning in Iran. Unfortunately, her fate still remains uncertain. More »
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Iranian authorities now say mother-of-two Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani will not be stoned for adultery. However, she may still be executed. More »
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An Iranian woman is set to be stoned to death for adultery — but pressure from the international community could change that. More »
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A Batavia, NY woman has become the 13th person ever arrested in the state for adultery, after a police officer spotted her allegedly having sex in a public park. More »
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A second man is claiming he slept with South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, but her campaign blames "the good old boys" for the allegations. Who's right? More »
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Last night on Nightline, a stiff, oddly surfer-esque Jesse James broke his silence to talk about why he cheated, his father abusing him as a child, and what was really behind that Nazi photo. More »
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David Perel, former editor of the National Enquirer, writes today about the Edwards investigation and what the hell went wrong with John. His take: John Edwards is a power-hungry, narcissistic, coddled jerk who thought he could get away with anything. More »
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Caught cheating in New Hampshire? You could be facing a $1,200 fine. And some lawmakers would like to keep it that way, on the grounds that taking the 200-year-old law off the books would somehow "diminish" marriage. [AP] More »
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It's sex scandal Friday! We're taking a break from health care to discuss the increasingly dismal situation facing John Ensign, who clearly did not pay attention to the adage "It's cheaper to keep [him]." Ethics violations and adultery, ahoy! More »
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Caitlin Flanagan is back, defending marriage against all those who would destroy it. The villains this time: John Edwards's "minx" Rielle Hunter, and onetime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown. More »
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A Saudi princess who had a baby with her English boyfriend has been given asylum in Britain, saying she would be stoned as an adulterer if she returned to Saudi Arabia. More »
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Imagine this: You go to confront your husband, whom you suspect is cheating on you, and find out that he is married to another woman, who lives in the same apartment complex. [CBS News] More »
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A married Chinese businessman's plan to hold a contest between his five mistresses to decide which one to "keep" backfired when one of the eliminated women drove him off a cliff. More »
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Ok So-ri, a well-known South Korean actress, has been given a suspended eight-month prison sentence after being found guilty of cheating on her husband with a singer. [BBC] More »
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South Korean prosecutors are demanding that a popular actress be thrown in jail for a year and a half for having an affair. Ok So-ri admitted to the affair with a singer and called for the government to overturn an anti-adultery law enacted fifty years ago to protect women in a male-dominated society. Ok's lawyers said in a petition to the Constitutional Court, "The adultery law ... has degenerated into a means of revenge by the spouse, rather than a means of saving a marriage." [Reuters] More »
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The Washington Post is currently running a bazillion-part series on the disappearance and murder of the second-most-infamous Washington intern, Chandra Levy (we're sure the timing has nothing to do with the end of Gary Condit's latest lawsuit). Chandra came to Washington in the fall of 2000 for an internship, started an affair with a Congressman and ended up dead in Rock Creek Park. The paper has run 3 parts of the series so far — what Chandra did the day she disappeared, what she was doing in the months leading up to that, and the Condit's history of cheating on his wife. The biggest take-away lesson: metaphorically, you should pay attention to your mom about that clean underwear thing because you don't want the world to dig through your dirty drawers 7 years later. That, and some other takeaway lessons, after the jump. More »
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Philip Weiss really wants to fuck tattooed 20-something waitresses. The problem is, he's married. He decided to write a several-thousand word story for New York full of anecdotal evidence, pseudo-science, and cautionary tales meant to explore why marriage has never quelled his desire for firm, unknown flesh. When I first read it I was furious — mostly because Weiss expects sympathy for his "condition." He begins the essay by saying 'When the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke in March, I had only sympathy for him: another middle-aged married guy tormented by his sexual needs. I’m 52 and have always struggled with the desire for sexual variety." He goes on to plead for a more open society, one in which it is not seen as morally suspect to have sex outside of marriage. And yeah, he says a lot of misogynistic things, including comparing all wives to Yoko Ono (which in addition to being sexist is soooo trite), but I couldn't even get that angry about it, because I was too depressed about the way he talks about marriage in general, and his marriage in particular. More »
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Today's Daily Mail, the paper we love to hate, has a story about "modern mistresses." Frances Jackson is a 28 year old publicist who loved having an affair with a married man. "Being a mistress fitted perfectly into my life," she says. "I liked having a lover, dinners and dates and spending the night at my house together once a week. But I also loved it that Andrew couldn't spend every minute with me. It meant I could still socialize with my three girl friends." The story claims that Frances and her three friends "swap breathless secrets of adulterous affairs, stolen sex with married men and lavish lies fed to the unknowing victims of their actions." Frances would turn to her friends for advice. "We reasoned that as long as the affair was on my terms and I didn't get hurt then I should just enjoy it." But although the paper paints these single women as dangerous man-eaters, only Frances knowingly had an affair with a married man. More »
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Poor Dita von Teese. As if it wasn't bad enough being married to a guy who wears more makeup than she does, now comes news that the burlesque star's marriage to Marilyn Manson ended because of the attentions of another woman. More »
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