Ashley Madison article on yourtango.com

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 …

If FaceBook was Uncensored …

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 …

Up to Date with Thy Neighbor’s Wife

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.

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.

Toronto and AshleyMadison.com

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 …

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 …

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.