{"id":571,"date":"2007-11-26T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T10:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/christian-site-just4ladiescom-was-never-a-porn-site\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T10:31:45","slug":"christian-site-just4ladiescom-was-never-a-porn-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/christian-site-just4ladiescom-was-never-a-porn-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Site Just4Ladies.com Was Never A Porn Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/just4ladies.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Archive results for the domain just4ladies.com\" \/>I&#8217;ve stumbled across another dodgy example Christian anti-porn extremism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbcbaptistpress.org\/BPnews.asp?ID=26730\" target=\"blank\">This page<\/a> asserts that the domain just4ladies.com was originally a &#8220;pioneering porn site for women&#8221; and was in operation as far back as 1995. It then gushingly praises the owner, Michele Washam, for converting it into a Christian site.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally I was curious to discover this when I found it on Google News. As far as I was aware, the first adult site for women was Purve and it debuted in 1998. So I thought I should see what this &#8220;original&#8221; women&#8217;s site looked like.<\/p>\n<p>The Wayback Machine (archive.org) is a great tool which can show you the text from sites as far back as 1996. It reveals <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20000523173354\/http:\/\/www.just4ladies.com\/\" target=\"blank\">the truth about just4ladies.com<\/a>. Turns out <strong>the site was never online prior to 2000 and it&#8217;s always been a Christian site<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And the interesting thing is this: the first archive dated 23 May 2000 makes no mention whatsoever of porn. Indeed, the site doesn&#8217;t even acknowledge the <em>P word<\/em> until 2007 when Washam released her book on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Whois entry for that domain says it was first registered in January 1999.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pornproofingyourhome.com\/generalinformation\/michelewasham\/index.htm\" target=\"blank\">This page<\/a> says Washam worked as an adult web designer from 1995 to 1999 and again repeats the claim that she operated &#8220;one of the first ladies only erotica web sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-religion\/1490419\/posts\" target=\"blank\">This article<\/a> also makes the claim that just4ladies was a membership site in 1995, with 7000+ members paying $29.99 a month.<\/p>\n<p>Just4Ladies.com itself says it used to be a porn site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Just4Ladies Heartbreak Community has an interesting past and a promising future. Originally created as one of the Internet&#8217;s first ladies only erotica web sites but after a life changing heartbreak the creator, Michele &#8220;Shell&#8221; Washam, then a 30-year old single mom of three, changed her course in life after surrendering her broken heart and broken will to God.<\/p>\n<p>On Valentines Day 1999 Just4Ladies took on a new mission&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fact is, that&#8217;s just not true. <\/p>\n<p>There WAS a women&#8217;s porn site called Just For Ladies (justforladies.com) which has recently closed down, but it was operated by Maxcash and one of the women behind it was Ladylynx. That particular Just for Ladies started in 1999 but it had nothing to do with Michele Washam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As far as I&#8217;m aware, Just4Ladies.com was NEVER a porn site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is possible that Washam was an adult web designer prior to her religious conversion but if she can&#8217;t tell the truth about her website, what else is she lying about?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve stumbled across another dodgy example Christian anti-porn extremism. This page asserts that the domain just4ladies.com was originally a &#8220;pioneering porn site for women&#8221; and was in operation as far back as 1995. It then gushingly praises the owner, Michele Washam, for converting it into a Christian site. Naturally I was curious to discover this when I found it on Google News. 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