How would you feel if you responded to an extremely explicit sexual advert on Craigslist and had your answer, plus any photos, published on the Web?
In this case, the ad was looking for a "brutal dom muscular male 30-35 yo who is arrogant, self-centered, nasty, egotistic, sadistic who likes 2 give intense pain and discipline" so your reply might well have left out your addiction to Friends and your experience in Java programming.
There's a good account of the episode at Waxy.org, and the story was picked up in Friday's Metro, in London, which reported:
A 'prankster' named Jason Fortuny - a web developer in Seattle - posted an explicit advert (copied from a different city's personal ads) on the Seattle Craigslist site, posing as a submissive female seeking an aggressive, dominant man for sex. He wanted to see how many responses he could get in 24 hours.
He received a grand total of 178 responses via email, many including sexually explicit photos of the men - which he then proceeded to post, in their entirety, on the web.
Many of the men used their real names to contact the '27 yo sexy str8 woman'. Many used their work email addresses. Some sent phone numbers, or instant messenger screen names. Out of the 178, 145 of them sent pictures - some just of their faces, many others of ruder, less public parts of their anatomy. A good number of them admitted they were married.
At least one response was from a microsoft.com address....
Comment: It will be interesting to see whether there are any legal ramifications, and whether Fortuny can be sued for anything beyond copyright violation. There's also, as Metro says, "the possibility of more direct personal retribution". If you're going to bait people on Craigslist, it may not be the smartest move to target "nasty, egotistic, sadistic" people who enjoy inflicting pain.
Sure, the police would know where to look for the perpetrator, but someone who has just been thrown out by his wife and/or had his reputation destroyed at work might not care.
