Norwegian 10-year-old takes toddler sister on joy ride

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014
第３種郵便物認可
FEATURE / THIS WEEK’S OMG!
Online adultery booming as
cheating sites surge
最近インターネットで、不倫相手を見つけるサービスを提供しているウェ
ブサイトの利用者が増えているという。老若男女、国籍も異なる既婚者
が、それぞれの理由でサイトにアクセスしている。
One 29-year-old woman says
it helped her take revenge on her
unfaithful husband. A 45-yearold married man says it has
helped prevent the break-up of
his family. For millions, adultery
via the Internet has become the
new normal.
人生は短い、だから…
Since the launch of the Canada-based Ashley Madison website in 2002, which created a sensation with its seductive slogan
“Life is short, have an affair,”
the numbers turning to online infidelity have soared.
For Noel Biderman, the founder
of Ashley Madison, his site and others like it are merely facilitating a
human desire that is as old as time.
“No one can show me a culture on the planet where infidelity
doesn’t happen,” Biderman said.
“Infidelity was always there,” he
added, noting that conventional
dating websites are often “overrun by would-be affair seekers.”
Has the existence of sites like
Ashley Madison encouraged and
increased infidelity?
“It’s hard to know if the new
technologies increased infidelity
because we have no bottom-line
data,” said Pepper Schwartz, a
professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
“My guess, however, is that it
has because there are many people who have a yen for sex outside their relationship but
wouldn’t have the slightest idea
about how to do it or do it safely,”
Schwartz added.
Jinky, a 29-year-old woman
from Singapore, is a case in point.
She decided to pursue an affair after seeing an ad for the website
www.datingforcheaters.com.
“I was married at a very young
age, I was 18,” she said.
When she discovered that her
much older husband had been
cheating on her, she set about
avenging the infidelity through
adultery websites.
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Young and old, men and women, rich or poor, frequenters of
adultery sites come from all backgrounds, with a clear majority of
users being men in their 40s, according to Ashley Madison. The
reasons individuals are drawn to
such sites are equally diverse.
“Some are looking for sex because they are in sexless marriages with people they love or don’t
want to leave for other reasons
but cannot have sex with,” said
Schwartz.
“Others are stimulation junkies — they just can’t be satisfied
with sex with only one person,
even if they love that person.”
配偶者を監視する人も
The corollary to the surge in
adultery sites, however, has been
an increase in products that enable
suspicious partners to monitor
the activities of their other halves.
Whether it is spy cameras or
phone apps that store text messages or track an individual’s
movements, there is an evergrowing technological arsenal
available to those seeking to unmask the unfaithful.
Jeffrey Jurist, whose website
SpyAssociates.com sells a vast
range of surveillance equipment,
said that individuals seeking to
uncover adultery account for
around one-third of the company’s turnover.
“Greed, lust and fear are all
high-growth industries,” he said.
(AFP-Jiji)
浮気サイトが人気上昇中？
（見出し）adultery 不倫。cheating 浮気。
revenge リベンジ。unfaithful 不実な。
seductive 挑発的な。affair 浮気。
infidelity 不貞な行為。
merely ただ単に。(are) facilitating ∼の手助けをしている。
conventional 従来の。would-be affair seekers 浮気したがっている人たち。
bottom-line はっきりとした。
have ... for ∼ ∼に憧れる。
is ... point そのようなケースだ。
avenging ∼に対する復讐をすること。
Norwegian 10-year-old takes toddler sister on joy ride
Image courtesy of dan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
A 10-year-old Norwegian boy
took his toddler sister for a joy
ride in the family car, ending up in
a snowy ditch posing as a
dwarf, police and media reports
said Feb. 12.
The children had traveled
around 10 km toward their grandmother’s house when a snowplow driver saw the automatic
frequenters 常連客。are drawn to
∼ ∼に惹かれる。diverse 多様な。
stimulation junkies 刺激中毒者。be
satisfied with ∼ ∼に満足する。
corollary 推測。suspicious 怪しんで
いる。monitor ∼を見張る。halves 相方。
car stuck in a ditch on a quiet
country road in southeast Norway, according to the police.
“This seems to have happened on an impulse. He woke
up at night, his sister was also
awake and he decided to take
her for a ride,” said a local police
officer.
According to the Norwegian
daily Dagbladet, the boy told the
snowplow driver that they were on
their way to their grandmother’s
store ∼を保管する。track ∼を追跡す
る。arsenal 宝庫。 unmask ∼を暴く。
surveillance 監視。account for ∼ ∼を占める。turnover 総売上高。
Greed 貪欲。lust 欲望。fear 恐怖心。
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house about 30 km away.
He later told another snowplow operator that he was a
dwarf and had wound up in the
ditch when making a hasty Uturn to go home for his driving license.
The young boy and his
18-month-old sister, who was
sitting on the passenger seat
without a seat belt, were unharmed and cheerful when they
were found.
(AFP-Jiji)
10歳の男児、妹を乗せて祖母の家へドライブ？
（見出し）joy ride 無謀な運転。
ditch 側溝。posing as ∼ ∼のふり
をする。dwarf 成長の止まった大人。
snowplow 除雪車の。
have ... impulse 思い付きで起こった。
had ... in ∼ 結局 ∼ に行き着いた。
hasty 急な。
passenger seat 助手席。

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