jss | June 15, 2010
Which sounds worse, “cheater” or “adulterer” ? The former is pretty broad; the latter really only applies to marriage.
The there are verbs. “Strayed” sounds like something your dog does …
And the adjectives: “Extramarital sex” … “non-connubial nookie” (I kinda like that …)
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jss | October 28, 2009
I have a lengthy article about the Ashley Madison Agency published today at YourTango.com:
Adultery Benefits Women? A Case For Ashley Madison
The article is excerpted from a preliminary chapter of Into Temptation. So it is a bit of a sneak preview, long in advance …
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jss | May 28, 2009
The Girls of FaceBook? The social network may censor nipples and porn, but that doesn’t prevent the competition to be hot …
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Tags: censorship, FaceBook, girls of facebook, into temptation, Newsweek, sexual culture
jss | May 12, 2009
Thy Neighbor’s Wife, by Gay Talese, is back in print. I originally read it long ago, though probably not in 1980 when it came out. I was too busy getting out of college in the middle of a recession (sound familiar, anyone?) to have been picking and choosing from the bestseller lists.
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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.
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jss | March 10, 2009
The mainstream media has adopted something of a confrontational stance regarding the company’s efforts to market itself in the United States. Ashley Madison is selling adultery. It’s destroying families. From watching interviews and reading articles — CNN, MSNBC, Tyra Banks, etc. — you’d think that CEO Noel Biderman ought to be wearing a red suit and sporting horns. There are people who want to kick his ass …
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Tags: adultery, ashleymadison.com, into temptation, Noel Biderman, Tyra Banks