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"Ashley Madison Works… It Helps If You're Not Too Picky"

Dodai — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Says a man who tried it: "As one woman told me, 'I'd never leave my husband; I love him to death. We just stopped having sex three years ago, and I'm not ready to never have sex again.'" [Nerve]

How The Internet Helps Wives Cheat On Their Husbands

Margaret — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:20:00 EDT

Today Good Morning America reported on the new trend of "real life desperate housewives" using sites like AshleyMadison.com to carry on affairs. Nevermind the fact that 70% of the site's users are men.

We wrote about AshleyMadison.com last year, but since the site is open to wives and husbands looking to cheat on their spouse, we never thought to focus on the minority of women who use the site. Maybe it's because cheating wasn't invented back then. As anonymous adulteress "Deeana" explains in the clip at left, "before the internet people just struggled through their marriages."

I Thee Dread

Dodai — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:40:00 EDT

We have posted about Ashley Madison before — it's the social networking site for married people looking to have affairs. This week, there's an interview in New York's Village Voice with the company's CEO, Noel Biderman. He says when an Ashley Madison billboard was removed from NYC's Times Square after numerous complaints, he was "disappointed, but not deterred." Biderman notes, "There’s absolutely nothing illegal in what we do. We offer freedom of choice. I don’t think a billboard is going to convince you to commit adultery. It just makes you aware of our service. People come to us because we offer them a lack of judgment. Step back and look at marriage and divorce rates. Monogamy is obviously up for debate." [Village Voice]

I Thee Dread

Dodai — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:40:00 EDT

We've blogged about AshleyMadison.com before, but last night some of us saw a commercial for the site that was thoroughly revolting. A man slips from his place in bed next to a snoring (equally) chubby woman while a voiceover says,"Most of us can recover from a one-night stand with the wrong woman… But not when it's every night, for the rest of our lives." Cut to a picture showing that the woman is the man's wife. Yes, AshleyMadison.com caters to married men and women looking to have affairs with other marrieds. (A billboard for the site, which read "Life is short. Have an affair" was removed from New York's Times Square today, due to complaints.) A liberating service for consenting adults? Or a shameful idea whose existence corrodes moral fiber? Judge for yourself: Click the pic to see two commercials and the billboard. [YouTube, TMZ]