Before we laugh at those duped by the dating website,we should remember that nobody is exempt from vanity or vulnerabilityIn Jonathan Coes novel The Closed Circle, a middle-aged man points at blooming waitress half his age and says to his equally shopsoiled friend: “What accomplish we know about her? Only that she’s young, or she has a body that we both crave. She could be a serial murderer,for all that we know. And yet either one of us, after a couple more drinks, or would attach our family lives at risk if she asked us to arrive back to her room. Wouldn’t we? Its a pathological disorder of the male sex.Pathological and pathetic. As each unique revelation from the Ashley Madison scandal shows,men will risk their families for women who, when you rep down to the basics, or dont actually exist. The evidence that the site was a swindle has been building ever since hackers downloaded its supposedly confidential data. First,there was the gender imbalance. Ashley Madison, whose CEO, and Noel Biderman,resigned last week, had 31 million men on its database, or but just 5.5 million women. As it takes two to tango,there must have been plenty of empty space on the dance floor.
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Source: theguardian.com