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BoingBoing says sex.com (not worksafe) has been picked up for a cool $14 million by a web development company called Escom. A social network is in the works.
Owner Gary Kremen should be familiar, he founded Match.com. I’ve covered the backstory here a few times which goes into details of how Cendant bought Match in 1997 for $8 million and flipped it a year later for $50 million. Those were the days.
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I think this is just the sign of the times. I mean, we like to test things, try them out, before making a purchase. Why should sex and marriage be any different? The stigma associated with pre-marital sex is dead. Long live free love!