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Originally Posted by pylon

To me, the mist egregious thing, is not the cheating aspect, it is the fact that this thing was a massive scam. Many of these people (mainly men it seems) would have never compromised themselves in the first place, or been lured by the temptation had they known that virtually no women used the site.

In a way, it was almost a form of entrapment. I can vaguely see this from the perspective of a married person that has been locked out by their partner for years, or been given nothing but emotionless, nail painting sex or soulless, 'because it's your birthday' hand jobs. In fact I have a couple friends trapped in marriages like this, one.... it's been 2.5 years for him. The lure of getting some sort of fulfillment is there, and worth the risk to that individual. But the risk would have never been taken had they known that they were reaching out to a server, in some dingy closet somewhere. It makes it even more pathetic.

What these men and almost no women did was wrong, the fraudulent user base created by this company, is far worse. I hope the owner of this company is charged, and does a nice, healthy, little prison sentence.

It's not just Ashley Madison btw. I know a guy who used to work for a chat site where he spent his days pretending to be women of various ages.

So you know. That's a thing.