I can confirm there are people on the list that were just idiots looking for some strange.

I posted about this in another thread about the leak a couple years ago, but I was on the list (or so I've heard). I was single, had never even met my wife at the time. Nor had I met anybody off of AM. When the leak came out I was just dating my wife at the time. Told her my story, she laughed, moved on with our lives. But I know everyone that sees my name on there probably assumes the worst about me and don't stop to put two and two together that I wasn't married at the time.

This was all before Tinder, back when dating websites were the only other option if you didn't have time to go out to bars. Most websites were awful. One drunken night (perhaps after striking out at the bar) I see an ad for AM. The only thing I remember about AM was it was a nicer website, which of course = hotter women. Score 1 for the marketing department. Guess I was too drunk to notice it was geared toward affairs, not regular dating. I believe there was a free trial going on (I'm way too cheap to have paid for one of these sites), but you had to give CC info. I guess drunk me decided that was no biggie and I'd just cancel when the trial ended. Sober me did not remember. Got hit for a one month sub, I canceled and never looked back. But the damage was done.

Met my wife a year or two later on Tinder, like a respectable person. Then this scandal breaks out about all these men caught cheating and it didn't even occur to me that it was the same site I spent one drunk night on years earlier.

I was just a horny guy looking for hot singles in my local area. There's literally dozens of us.

Anyway, believe me or not, I don't care. Wouldn't expose myself on here if the story was bullshite. Anybody that investigates would see I only spent whatever the 1 month sub was (not one of these bros trying to explain away $1,000s of dollars spent

), and you would see it was before I was married. I only tell the story to give some benefit of the doubt that there are names on there that were "wrong place, wrong time."

I imagine there's thousands of people on here that would have some explaining to do if their credit card activity from a blackout night on Bourbon St. ever got exposed. "I didn't know that was a gay bar, I swear!"

This post was edited on 5/20/24 at 10:25 am