{"id":324,"date":"2009-04-23T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-04-23T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T17:30:06","slug":"a-thought-on-ashley-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"A thought on &#8220;Ashley Madison&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a site called, Ashley Madison (http:\/\/www.ashleymadison.com), that I have heard ads for on my morning radio station, Rock 100.5.\u00a0 This site is controvertial because it is a &#8220;dating site&#8221; for people who are already in relationships.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this sort of a contridiction?\u00a0 In other words, they are facilitating cheaters.<\/p>\n<p>Cheating isn&#8217;t necessarily about the sex act, but about the breach of trust that a couple has.\u00a0 Cheating doesn&#8217;t even have to be sex.\u00a0 It could be an anything intimate, such as dinner or any other &#8220;couple activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Ashley Madison defended his site by saying that it is &#8220;preserving families.&#8221;\u00a0 In the short term, possibly, but in the long term, I seriously doubt that this kind of site will do anything but cause the divorce rate to increase (as if it isn&#8217;t high enough already&#8230;).\u00a0 Anybody who uses this site for an &#8220;encounter&#8221; are seriously breaking the marriage vows and a commandment or two&#8230; lying and cheating are no way to preserve a family.\u00a0 Even if the site is anonymous, getting caught is enivitable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I realize, however, that nobody is forced to join such a site or even visit&#8230; but I am a bit disheartened to be told that there are 3.6 million members of the site.\u00a0 Not only that they have a large membership, but that there is an actual market for this type of behavior&#8230; and a site like this fosters and facilitaes it&#8230; shame on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a site called, Ashley Madison (http:\/\/www.ashleymadison.com), that I have heard ads for on my morning radio station, Rock 100.5.\u00a0 This site is controvertial because it is a &#8220;dating site&#8221; for people who are already in relationships.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}