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I first heard about this on a Tyra episode. What made it even weirder was that "Ashley" and "Madison" were the top 2 names for baby girls in the year that the site was founded. That's how the site creator chose the name for the site. Just a little twisted.
There were several people there who have used the site and I don't remember all their stories, but one was a man who discovered his wife had used the site to cheat on him. The guy was totally in pieces and Tyra asked the site creator something like, "Do you ever think about the spouses that get cheated on? It's not all swingers and people with open marriages looking for harmless fun using the site. People get hurt every day because their spouse used your services and you're profiting off of that." The site creator (dunno his name) said something about how people would cheat anyway, he's trying to give "the people" what they want, etc. The guy whose wife cheated started yelling at him at that point so whatever he said after that was lost.
I'm leaning towards Tyra's statement on this one. Sure, people are gonna cheat if they want to and some people don't think of it as "cheating" because their relationships/marriages are open like that. But the site's slogan was "Life is short. Have an affair." I don't think the site is catering to harmless fun (for the most part). While it is definitely the user who destroyed his or her relationship/family and not the site itself, I take issue with someone who actually encourages that. There are just so many other ways to make money.
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Last edited by christiangirl; 03-30-2011 at 10:12 PM.
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