British Swingers: Two Million and Counting

jss | March 14, 2009

When I throw into casual conversation some of the membership numbers associated with social-sexual networking web sites, some people boggle and others scoff.

“I call bullshit,” was one comment when I posted the per capita membership of Adult Friendfinder by state recently. Someone didn’t believe that 12 percent of adult Alaskans and seven percent of Americans over the age of 18 would be members of AFF.

Alaska, Wyoming, Washington D.C. Top ‘Swinging States’ List

jss | March 9, 2009

Alaskans may vote conservatively but the state that brought us Gov. Sarah Palin leads the nation in memberships per capita to the world’s largest site for swingers, adult chat and adult personal ads. The nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., ranks third.

The statistics gnomes at intotemptation.net, meaning me, spent a day and change crunching and analyzing the publicly available records at AdultFriendfinder.com, which claims more than 16 million members …

SexyAds.com moving toward free access

jss | February 13, 2009

In a move that may have some profound implications for the world of online adult personals, SexyAds.com founders Jayce and Maureen Shaw said today that the adult dating site will shift to “fully featured adult networking.” (More)

You've Been Tempted.

Shadowy "Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2010, of a book by the same name.

The author and editor? Jeff Schult | DWM | 52 | New England | ... We've dispensed with pseudoanonymity.