STDs

For my day job, I work as a web editor and one of my responsibilities is responding to inquiries people send to the web site. Most of them are about things I don’t answer myself because they are of a sensitive or technical nature. Sometimes they are emails looking for jobs or business. Occasionally the emails are amusing but because of their subject matter I have to keep the amusement to myself. But finally (!) I have received one I can share.

Mind you, the web site I work for is for a children’s hospital. Remembering that makes this much more funny.

So this company / web site emailed my web site asking us to help refer business to them and we could earn money on every person referred. The email starts out “Dear Webmaster, I just visited your site. Our site PositiveSingles.com is the best, easiest and largest STD dating site in the world! Our visitors might be interested in one another. You may also want to join our affiliate program.”

So here is my question: Is this a singles web site for people with STDs? And why do I think that’s funny? I mean, I am sure there are singles sites for people who are HIV positive and I think that’s awesome. But somehow, an ad that reads “SWF with herpes seeking SM with gonorrhea” is just too much for me.

Later inspection did show that the web site, http://positivesingles.com/, is indeed a web site for people with STDs. I still think it’s funny though.