New SA cheating site 'secure'

24 August 2015 - 02:02 By Suthentira Govender

The prospect of getting caught with their pants down has not deterred philandering spouses from signing up with a new South African website that promotes cheating. While more than 70000 South Africans wait nervously to find out whether they will be exposed now that cheating website AshleyMadison has been hacked, Teazers boss Paul de Jager has not been deterred from punting his cheating4me.com website, which is described as a "network for discreet affairs".The site has more than 10000 users in South Africa and Europe.De Jager was adamant this week that his website did not encourage extra-marital affairs, saying it provided a safe platform on which subscribers could "chat".In light of the attack on AshleyMadison, De Jager's website has had its security beefed up.He said he had hired "the best in the business" to stop his website from suffering a similar fate.Johannesburg sexologist Elna McIntosh said the longer people stayed in online chat rooms, the more likely they were to engage in cybersex."Research shows that within four days people take it offline and on their first meeting they have sex because they have had the sexy chat and got hot under the collar," she said.McIntosh said a site like cheating4me.com advocated cheating...

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