Married women use net to find lovers

Spain website encouraging wives to have affairs angers husbands

Madrid advertisements prompt city's males to post angry comments on site's Facebook wall

An advertising campaign inviting married women to sign on to a website that will allow them to find men they can have affairs with has provoked an angry reaction in the Spanish capital Madrid.

The posters from the victoriamilan.es company on street advertising boards in Madrid invite women to "Relive your passion. Have an affair!" They are accompanied by a photograph of a smiling woman with her arms around an illicit lover. 

"You should be ashamed of promoting infidelity," one angry contributor, Diego Gascón, wrote on the Spanish website's Facebook page. 

"This site makes me sick. What kind of morality are you trying to promote?" wrote another contributor, Loles Falkner Falgueras, a digital marketing director, on the same wall. "I hope this sort of business does not prosper and you have to close down because there are people who do believe in family, in their partners, in love and it is already hard enough work to keep a family together."

But the website is obviously looking for a different kind of clientele. 

"You only live once as they say, and we want to help you live it to the fullest by establishing this exciting friendly meeting place to privately spice up your everyday life," it promises. The company claims to have created the first dating website in Europe to target people who are married or already in a relationship. 

"We offer an atmosphere in which you can have fun, flirt, get to know someone and have an affair either close to home or far away," claims the website, which gives its address as a PO Box in Oslo, Norway. 

It boasts that it can find both cyber-lovers and real ones from as far away as Sweden, Norway and Denmark. "You don't know what you are missing until you try it." 

The site also included testimonies that it claims come from happy clients. "I've already found several men to flirt and have fun with!" declares "Isabel, steady relationship, aged 31." 

"I quickly found a sweet and passionate lover," adds a 43-year-old married woman.

Source: Guardian

Comments

Hilde said…
I have seen this advertistment on a street board near my home, but I thought it was a commercial cunning for other thing!
Montse said…
Hi, Graham. People imagination is incredible. I think that everything could have its place in the net as long as it weren’t a crime, of course. From now on, It’s going to be easier for people who want to have a relation like that. That’s internet world, there you can find everything you want to get.

See you tomorrow!
Graham said…
Hi Hilde,

Good to see that you still make use of the blog from time to time.

I have seen this advertistment on a BILLBOARD near my home, but I thought it was a CLEVER ADVERT for SOMETHING ELSE!

"A commercial" is only found on TV or radio.
"other" is used with plurals, "another" with singular nouns.
Graham said…
Montse,

People find this advertisement amusing. I wonder what the reaction would be if the advert encouraged married men to have affairs. Something tells me that there would be an outcry.


PEOPLE'S imagination is incredible. I think that everything could have its place ON THE NET as long as it WASN'T a crime, of course. From now on, it’s going to be easier for people who want to have a relation like that. That’s THE WORLD OF THE INTERNET ....