Marryourdaughter.com is a hoax (no, really?)

While most states in the US prohibit sex with minors, marriage is apparently another issue. Children as young as 12 years old can get married in some states with nothing but parental permission. Of course, 12 year olds can't be expected to make an intelligent decision about something as important as marriage, so that's where parents step in. Marry Our Daughter is purportedly a site for parents to marry off their kids.

While the internet savvy have largely seen through the site as a hoax, apparently a lot of people have gotten up in arms about the site during its two weeks of existence. The creator gets over 1000 emails a day from people outraged at the site. He was kind of egging them on though. Not only did site creator John Ordover not tell anyone the site was a fake, he posed as a spokesperson for the service and went on the talk show circuit before coming clean.

He says his goal was to raise awareness of the ridiculous state of marriage laws in the US. Ordover's no stranger to controversy. He was co-creator of Technical Virgin, a website that got a lot of attention in 2000 and lost actress Melanie Martinez her job 7 years later.

Ordover's latest site has apparently been hammered so hard by traffic that it's down right now, but you can still read the ads using Google's cache.

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