A STREET ad for an online dating agency that promotes affairs is causing anger and upset in Poole.

The poster in Alder Road has had notices stuck on it by upset residents who have discovered their partners have been unfaithful to them.

“I have just found my cheating husband in this website,” said one.

“My cheating girlfriend is on this dating site,” said another.

“My husband is having an affair on here,” said a third.

Poole Methodist Minister the Rev Fraser Smith said it was “dumbfounding” that promiscuity was being advertised this way.

“Lust is easy, love is hard,” he said, adding people in relationships who were tempted to cheat should stop and think what it would be like if the boot was on the other foot.

“Trust is like a vase and having broken it, it will never be the same again.”

He said he had heard about the website on the radio and added: “I was shocked to realise this is something happening on Alder Road.”

The ad for the Affairs Dating website asks, “Can you keep a secret?” advertising the free site, which claims to have thousands of profiles to search. It says it was developed to fill a void in adult dating.

“Dating sites of this quality are extremely few and far between and Affairs Dating wanted to increase the options available for those seeking adult interaction.”

The website says: “We always believe that you can meet likeminded people who are looking to have an affair, when divorce is not an option.”

It offers dating safety tips and guidelines for an online affair.

Residents are calling for the ads to be taken down and Poole’s planning committee chairman Cllr Phil Eades said he would be looking into the matter.