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Bad boyfriends are under attack.

A new website for women scorned, called Sorry-Mom.com (a.k.a. I Bang the Worst Dudes), has upped the anti-ex factor: Alongside vicious descriptions of lovers past are their photos, prominently featured with just a thin black bar over the eyes.

Launched last month on a whim by Jeanne, a 25-year-old Brooklyn woman who did not want her full name published, the site gets more than 40,000 unique page views a day.

It follows in the tradition of other morning-after websites such as DontDateHimGirl.com and WomanSavers.com.

In these forums, single ladies get the dirt on suitors from the men's former flames, and find out if they are cheaters, con artists or deadbeat dads.

But Sorry-Mom is extra nasty.

Jeanne, a journalism graduate who works in Manhattan's entertainment industry, said the site aspires to the “ballsiness” of Tracie Egan's blog One D at a Time and the callousness of Vice Magazine's Dos and Don'ts, which has derided the fashion forward for more than a decade. While similar websites talk of “empowering” and “saving” women – and have branched out into advice columns – Sorry-Mom seems to take great delight in embarrassing the men with dirty details.

Among the former lovers is a severe-looking man “adamantly committed to a number of annoying causes: communism, righteous vegetarianism, neck tattoos and, worst of all, an unflinching belief that the best sex was extremely long sex.”

A sepia photo shows “Manimal,” who blames “his studies, his rough childhood and most of all his hopeless funk band for not ‘being able to give me anything' in bed.”

“The initial run of the site was chronologically every single person I've ever slept with,” said Jeanne, noting that it took one day for the men in question to start contacting her. Most took it well; one exploded. Now, just a handful of the entries are Jeanne's, and they're sprinkled anonymously among the others.

Slightly less cruel is TheBadBoyfriendClub.ning.com, where a man's photo is tacked onto a voodoo doll. Below, a photo album shows images of keyed-up cars interspersed with Anne Taintor's punchy vintage collages: “It would, of course, have to look like an accident,” reads one that features a determined-looking businesswoman.

Here, members share “rage-filled” stories, warn others “of any jerks on your radar” and get advice on breakups. The disclaimer reads: “We really DO want to meet good guys. And we will. But for now, we just wanna have a blast talking shit on the bad ones without being referred to as a ‘psycho,' got it? Good.”

One section is even hopeful: “My Victory Dance” is about good boyfriends, “accepting (and loving)” being single, or simply succeeding at the first step, getting over an ex.

WomanSavers.com, which advertises itself as the “world's largest database rating men,” has a serious side too. It offers advice for battered spouses – below a featured jerk. This week it's Peter, a “sociopath, pathological liar” who allegedly forgot to tell his girlfriend that he had a daughter before attempting to bilk her of $100,000.

The growing popularity of publicly eviscerating your ex appears to be one part digital age and one part celebrity emulation. Madonna, Alec Baldwin and countless others have mastered the fine art of dissing their exes for the media.

Tech-savvy celebs turn to their own blogs to mete out the punishment, as did Gym Class Heroes singer Travis McCoy who called out ex-girlfriend Katy Perry as a 10-year-old. In return, she accused him of wanting the milk without buying the whole cow, during a concert performance.

Jeanne acknowledges many of the stories are “depressing,” especially alarming accounts of domestic abuse.

“This is almost making me hate men,” Jeanne said, but not enough to stop her from “loving” the bearded, boozing exes that litter her site.

The site now gets about 20 submissions a day. Lately, Jeanne has noticed that they spike overnight.

She surmises: “I think girls have a couple of drinks and they're like, “I'm going to do it.”