“Church Blasts Sex Cheats Website”
A Catholic Church along with a group of marriage guidance counsellors came together to condemn internet sites that are catered to married people who want to have extra-marital affairs.
According to a cheaters website, that currently has 770,000 registered users:
“Infidelity is nothing new, it has been around as long as marriage itself,” said Darren Morgenstern, from Ashley Madison. “What makes it controversial is the fact that we are open and up front about it. “The success of the site speaks of people who want to use our services and need a service like ours. “Of course from an outside perspective you could say we are making cheating easier, but the reality is that people don’t suddenly cheat because it is easy, it is like saying hotels and motels make it easier to cheat.”
I don’t think the only controversy over these websites are that they are “open and up front about it”, but that they are brokers of free prostitution. We are not talking about emotions, temptation, etc…, which are sometimes involved in extramarital affairs. This is a means of a premeditated sexual encounter with a perfect stranger. It’s an illness.
“They use us as a plaster, so they can do this without breaking their marriage, and we are very keen on keeping marriages together.”
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On the eve of Easter Sunday, the Welsh Catholic Church slammed the website, which is planning to advertise in newspapers and on television, and criticised the media, such as soaps like EastEnders, for undermining family life in the same way.
I think the manifestation of undermining the family unit started long ago with the acceptance of condoms, contraceptives, abortion and divorce. Throughout the generations of desecrating the sacredness of the sexual act, it is no surprise that the very supernatural power meant to bring a married couple together, is now at the root of tearing them apart.
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Ah yes, the appeal once more to that fuzzy mist-filled memory of the mythological Golden Age of Marriage.
Never mind the arranged marriages, the higher rates of infidelity (as measured by the much higher prevalence of STDS in the past than in the present) And the common use of post-birth infanticide as a means of birth control.
Comment by Patrick (gryph) — April 17, 2006 @ 4:04 PM
Not sure what arranged marriages have to do with your argument. Neither does the quite curious speculation about a causal relationship between the rate of occurrence of STDs and infidelity. First you will have to state your time frame of comparison for this to be addressed. However, it is only recently that rates of infection of various types have been kept so the comparison will have to be of relatively recent times. Even so, because of advances in treatment and prevention measures the timeframe of comparison will have to be even closer still if you want to suggest infidelity is a probable predominant cause. Never the less, these are immaterial.
No one was referring to a golden age. Living in a fallen world, the states of institutions such as marriage will of course, have high and low points. Rather, Shelray is referring to the latest causal sequence of events in the current downward spiral. There is a very strong statistical correlation between the advent of more “effective” contraception and the bursting forth of the “sexual revolution.” The decline of marriage through the increase in divorce quickly follows. Cracks in the social fabric are right on its heals. While correlation proves not causation, the data fits the model. So goes marriage, so goes the family and social fabric.
Comment by David — April 17, 2006 @ 5:04 PM