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Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin
tsu doh nimh writes: It was bound to happen: Brian Krebs reports that extortionists have begun emailing people whose information is included in the leaked Ashleymadison.com user database, threatening to find and contact the target's spouse and alert them if the recipient fails to cough up 1 Bitcoin. Krebs interviews one guy who got such a demand, a user who admits to having had an affair after meeting a woman on the site and who is now worried about the fallout, which he said could endanger his happily married life with his wife and kids. Perhaps inevitable: two Canadian law firms have filed a class action lawsuit against the company, seeking more than half a billion dollars in damages.
It's not a matter of respect so much as it is that mammalian males are naturally driven to desire more than one mate. There have been experiments done that show that all males become less and less sexually attracted to the same mate the more they have sex with them. Fun fact: Having sex with a second mate often increases sexual desire for the first one, almost like having the same food over and over again, and then eating something else for a while, makes you like the first thing again.
Sure, you can talk all day about how you'll never cheat and how you're as pure as your "god" made you, but it's just not true at all. But as an atheist, I don't believe in that. In fact, none of the world's religions actually espouse monogamy.
The whole concept of monogamy is political in nature to create a power structure derived from united families, and the concept of it being under good is to give the would be breakers of that power structure a message that somebody is always watching them. And for what it's worth, for you Christians, monogamy has no biblical basis. If you look at practically every single male biblical figure, all of them had concubines and/or otherwise had sexual relations with more people than just their official spouse, except for Jesus. (And by the way, Jesus's message wasn't ever intended for gentiles, it was only aimed at Jews, and the "salvation" was for them to be saved from the Romans. 666 is a reference to Neron Caesar, not Satan, in fact there's no mention of hell at all other than some city called Gahenna where they burned their trash. Hell that Christians know of today is purely a concept borrowed from paganism by Catholics.)
FWIW I personally have never married and thus have been single my entire life (never dated either) so as a male on the outside looking in, I'm calling this as I see it.
Hey 3 digit UID man. The kids call it PROTIP, not Pro Hint. Keep up with the times gramps.