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    Have you seen this commercial?  Were you take aback as much as I was?  And do you really think that 2.8 million people have signed up saying they are interested in having an affair?

    I’d love your thoughts on this one…


    I was half asleep in my hotel room last night with one of the cable news channels lulling me to sleep, when I thought I heard something that jolted me awake. "Life is Short. Have an Affair." What? Did I just hear that? There was a mention of a website, so I quickly checked it out. It was true. There is actually a website that actually guarantees that you will have an affair... or your money back. "Join free and change your life today." No doubt.

    According to the site, at present, there are about 8.5 men for every 1.5 women that sign up. However, since approximately one out of every 10 men actually purchases credits enabling them to contact female members, the active or probable ratio is closer to 1 - 1.

    So far they claim 2.8 million 'like-minded' members.

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    1. adam herod on Wed, November 12, 2008

      Here’s my short response…Wow. I am shocked on two fronts. One, that people would be so ready to jump into having an affair that they would join a site so blatantly promoting it. Two, that in today’s fully search-able world that it probably won’t be long before spouses start getting busted via this website before they have an opportunity to use it to cheat. (and that the people signing up either aren’t web savvy enough to know that or care so little about their spouses)


      My only other initial thought is that I would guess that 9 out of every 10 of the women on the site are probably model pics that are being responded to by some temp somewhere. Women aren’t nearly as dumb as we are .

    2. Peter Hamm on Wed, November 12, 2008

      I am totally not shocked. Just another reason to keep the kids from watching TV.

    3. CS on Wed, November 12, 2008

      The other night I saw that the movie, “Tron,” was going to come on late at night on G4, the Geek Channel.  I loved that movie when I was a kid, so I set the DVR to record it.


      A few days later when we started watching it, the movie transitioned to the first set of commercials.  Just as I was about to skip through, I noticed that the first commercial was an advertisement for people to call a party line.  The ad, featuring an attractive woman dressed in form-fitting clothes, said something along the lines of, “There are plenty of services for people who are looking to marry and develop life-long relationships.  But what if you want to have sex with someone with no strings attached?  Want to find people like you?  Call this number for discreet lists of, ‘friends with benefits.’”


      I was taken aback by that ad, just like you, Todd, with the one you saw.  And in looking through other evening and late-night programs, I’m seeing a higher number of similar ads for people looking to be sexually promiscuous.  It’s just another sign of the decline of morality and the love of sin put out in the open again.  Pretty soon, people on The View and Oprah will be praising these types of, “hook-ups.”


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      CS

    4. Cindy K on Wed, November 12, 2008

      I’m betting that the women on this web site are ‘professionals’.  At least the majority of them.


      If you call it an ‘affair’ it’s not illegal.

    5. Clayton Bell on Thu, November 13, 2008

      Todd, thanks for not sharing the website on here! Not because i would be tempted, but so we don’t give them any more pub!

    6. Todd Rhoades on Thu, November 13, 2008

      Thanks, Clayton… that’s exactly why I didn’t put it on here!


      Todd

    7. e.b. on Fri, November 14, 2008

      UGH! Yuck!  That’s all I can say.  Stunned.

    8. Lori on Fri, November 14, 2008

      I heard about this website last night on a Boston news channel.  While I was appalled I became even more sad when they reproted two more things. 


      First the founder of the website said that he is happily married with children and that while he wouldn’t cheat on his wife, nor really “condone” it, for him it is just a BUSINESS VENTURE. He is just providing a service that meets a need.  He is openly admitting he is making money on what will destroy marriages.


      Secondly, the ratio of men to women on the site—- 7 to 3.


      My heart breaks for our nation.

    9. Bob Weis on Mon, November 17, 2008

      On a recent trip to New York City, I saw a billboard that was advertising this company.  It was encouraging people to contact them if they wanted to have an affair with other consenting adults.  This is another destructive path our culture is going down.  Never satisfied.  No morals.  No boundaries.

    10. Pat on Mon, November 17, 2008

      It speaks volumes that this type of service has become acceptable enough to have t.v. advertising in prime time, let alone at all.  No longer is it reserved to the back pages of seedy magazines.

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