Infidelity is Apparently a Lagging Indicator

If you want to get a regain your faith in the human spirit and the good of humanity... well, maybe reading this blog entry isn't for you. An infidelity website AshleyMadison.com, has seen an explosion in membership during the last couple of months, some attributing the surge due to a struggling economy. The reasoning is that the bad economy brings out women who are looking for sugar daddies and men who are otherwise depressed about their shattered dreams at work. Yup, there's no better way than to regain your sense of dignity than to throw yourself into an illicit sexual relationship. That's right up there with vodka-fueled cocaine binge.

What can you say? It's terribly sad and if you read some of quotes by men who are using the service in the article, you can almost sense the hollowness of their rationale. It's fair to say that there's an element of that despair and vain attempt to find pleasure in every one of us, but I find even more mind-boggling and despicable is the rationale of providing such a service from the CEO. "We believe we save more marriages than we end," according to CEO Noel Biderman.

What I'd actually think would be a great concept is to have a crossover television show - "Cheaters Takes On Ashley Madison". For those of you unfamiliar with the show, Cheaters was a syndicated television program where unfaithful spouses were baited, "outed" by a camera crew, and confronted by a sanctimonious host. As you watched the guy run from the cameras and the host towards his pickup truck screaming, "That was my evil twin brother! This is all a misunderstanding!" you'd almost feel sorry for the guy... until you realized that he was just caught red-handed having an affair. But to have the Cheaters crew inflitrate Ashley Madison with the sole purpose of outing unfaithful husbands would be intriguing. True, the concept misses some of the key lessons in the account in John 7:53-8:11 of the woman caught in adultery, but I still say it's intriguing.