The reason we do it is because your email inbox will soon fill up with spam, and we've had plenty of emails from people who've suggested that we've being passing their email out to spammers. (Which we don't). The "Spammers" of this world write software programs called "spiders" which are automated programs that scan internet sites like this looking for any text that looks like an email. When they find an email they gleefully add you to their daily mailouts and you can now look forward to a daily feed of unwanted emails regards your masculinity, depression, nigerian money scams, rolex watches and more. For your sake, and ours, it's best not to publicly publish your email on any website! :-)