But not to worry, because there are actually ways that you can milk this cash cow without the added worry of monthly GUM clinic check ups.
People like shagging and as long as they continue to do it, porn, prostitutes and sex toys will never go out of fashion. There’s no doubt that most of us have fantasised about making a dodgy porno or signing up to ‘Discreet Elite’ when watching ‘Secret Diary of a Call Girl’ after rinsing the student loan on drugs and booze.
But the thing that stops us from making that call is that in reality it just ain’t that glam.
In a company Q&A last year, the site's director of business development, Stefan Patrick, said: Back in 2006, everyone was becoming aware of the power of web 2.0 advances: the social dimension.
With backgrounds in transactional platforms [...] the founders were looking to build an online transactional community/social network.
So began the pitch I gave my wife to let me join the marrieds-looking-for-affairs website Ashley Madison.
It would be part of my research into women who cheat, why infidelity is increasing, and what can be done to possibly affair-proof a marriage.
[...] No one was getting the fact that guys wanted real interaction with girls and tools were now available to deliver that experience.
Free porn was propagating like crazy and interaction was the one of the few things for which they were willing to pay.
I recently found myself copulating on a couch in an expansive Manhattan apartment, surrounded by glistening, naked strangers. I’m not addicted to sex or porn (though if you search my browser history, you might find some questionable URLs…).
I guess you could say I’ve always been sexually adventurous, but it’s nothing that could be classified as a fetish or weird.