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Is Washington, DC, Capital of Cheating?

Dating website says the District is the least faithful city in U.S.

Washington, DC tops the list of the “least faithful cities in America,” according to a blog post on the dating site AshleyMadison.com.

The website touts itself as “the most successful website for finding an affair and cheating partners,” and bases its ratings on the number of sign-ups to its site per capita in a given region.

In 2012, 34,157 individuals in the District of Columbia enrolled on the website, earning the top spot on AshleyMadison’s top 10 list. Two Texas cities, Austin and Houston, round out the top three slots.

No West Coast city appears on the list; East coast and Midwest cities complete the top 10:

  1. Washington, DC
  2. Austin, TX
  3. Houston, TX
  4. Miami, FL
  5. Oklahoma City, OK
  6. Richmond, VA
  7. Boston, MA
  8. Philadelphia, PA
  9. Lincoln, NE
  10. Phoenix, AZ

The website’s founder and CEO, Noel Biderman, attributes DC’s ranking to some very public events, saying, “With enormous public attention paid to political cheating scandals this year, including the Gen. Petraeus affair, there was no doubt that Washington residents would be influenced.”

Other data from the site claims that DC also has the highest percentage of married men over the age of 50 seeking affairs. 

What about the DC suburbs? Are they implicated as well? Tell us in comments.

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meech February 17, 2013 at 07:21 pm
i can believe it several times im in dc area and run across married men at happy hours looking to date ..as if they forgot they have a spouse at home..
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Brigitta Mullican June 2, 2013 at 11:58 pm
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Brigitta Mullican June 7, 2013 at 11:51 pm
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Deborah Durham May 14, 2013 at 01:11 pm
I am so sorry this happened to your girls! There is no excuse for the theater personnel notRead More helping. I hope you get an apology from management. Perhaps the city police should have an officer in the area after the last movie.
Joe Shono May 14, 2013 at 08:09 pm
Yaaaay! Lets put it on the police again. Good thinking the Deb. How about Kate gets her daughter aRead More chaperone. Ask 2 people and then a movie theatre employee and then walk home? That story sounds really fishy. I don't believe the world is in as bad a shape as Kate purports.
Theresa Defino May 14, 2013 at 08:55 pm
I think more facts are necessary here. When you didn't hear from them you didn't go to theater toRead More find them? It is hard to know where blame lies here, not knowing how old these girls are. It sounds like your daughter and god daughter don't have their own phones? No matter my children's age, I make it a point to know the running times of the movies they're at, especially if I am the one who is going to be picking them up. We warn children--especially girls and young women--not to go to strangers for help. We know that of the three girls, the man kidnapped one who was his daughter's friend after giving her a lift.