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42,000 Irish are having affairs on internet
14 March 2012
42,000 Irish are having affairs on the internet
It has been claimed that an astounding 42,000 Irish men and women partake in extramarital affairs on the internet.
http://illicitencounters.com/ helps people to look for affairs online. It has around 630,000 registered users from Ireland and the UK.
Rosie Freeman-Jones founded the site in 2003. Speaking on the John Murray Show, she admitted: "I don't think there is a great moral problem, Having an affair is not necessarily a bad thing. I've been doing this job for four years and I sleep very well at night ... I am comfortable with it”.
She also says, “People come to a site like ours because they want to feel they are not the only ones bored in their relationship. We recognize that this is happening on a huge scale, our impact on marriages of the masses is very small”.
Additionally she added, "It provides a bit of perspective, once they have gone elsewhere they might think, no this is not what I want and that is a win, win for us. Men are willing to fork out €100 per month to avail of the service, whether they're looking to flirt with a woman or engage in a full-blown affair”.
According to Rosie Freeman-Jones the majority of their users are aged between 35 and 40 and are financially stable.
She says “I think we have a tendency to demonise people who seek extramarital relationships and that is a fundamental problem. At the end of the day we are looking at between 40pc and 60pc of people who will cheat. You can either ignore it and say it is wrong and put it in a box somewhere or you can acknowledge it”.
According to Freeman-Jones some members have low confidence and come online just to flirt a bit. She also notes how many aren't people who are in a classic "unhappy marriage". Why then would they cheat? Freeman-Jones believes "they get to a stage in their life where they feel as if they should be satisfied with their monogamous relationship and they are not and they feel confused and conflicted,"
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