Thread: Is Sexting cheating?

The article's comment "Would you text it, post it, send it with your spouse looking over your shoulder?" seems to hit the nail on the head here about what is and what isn't over the line when it comes to marital fidelity.


Is Internet sex cheating? Many folks say yes - Forbes.com
Jon Austin's wife, Amy, had a blunt assessment for her husband as the Minneapolis couple watched Rep. Anthony Weiner's stunning confessions on television this week.

"You'd be dead," she told him.

Regardless of his professional future, it's Weiner's predicament at home that seems to be launching countless discussions among couples like the Austins. And this time, it's not a question of actual physical cheating - a la Eliot Spitzer and his prostitution scandal - but the murkier backdrop of Internet relationships: sexting, tweeting lewd photos, emailing.

If it's virtual, does it constitute infidelity? Many Americans seem to think it does.

"Would you text it, post it, send it with your spouse looking over your shoulder?" asks Austin, 52, who works in corporate public relations and takes no issue with his wife's frank appraisal of the situation. "If yes, then it's not infidelity. If no, you're cheating."

I consider it little more than masturbation as it's imaginary. Now if one considers masturbation cheating..then I could understand the consistency.

Yes, sexting with someone other than your spouse is cheating.

Originally Posted by jackalope

Yes, sexting with someone other than your spouse is cheating.

I'm guessing this will break down along gender lines.

If you masturbate with a mag or a movie, it's masterbating. If you masterbate with a person on a phone, you involve someone else. That's cheating.


(but, lol at ur whistling smiley ;-). )

I wouldn't mind "breaking down along some gender lines"... if you know what I'm saying...

narf narf

Originally Posted by jackalope

If you masturbate with a mag or a movie, it's masterbating. If you masterbate with a person on a phone, you involve someone else. That's cheating.


(but, lol at ur whistling smiley ;-). )

Unless I missed it, I thought Weiner's escapades were text only?

Originally Posted by Inspector Gently

I wouldn't mind "breaking down along some gender lines"... if you know what I'm saying...

narf narf

*snort!*

Originally Posted by Devil505

Unless I missed it, I thought Weiner's escapades were text only?

Text only would still be cheating - he's talking to someone else who is not his spouse. But, he had phone sex and exchanged dirty pix too. All cheating, even if no physical contact.

IMO, of course.

Originally Posted by jackalope

If you masturbate with a mag or a movie, it's masterbating. If you masterbate with a person on a phone, you involve someone else. That's cheating.


(but, lol at ur whistling smiley ;-). )

I notice no one had yet used the words adultry or infidelity. I guess we're going to need a definition of "cheating".
Pissing off your mate? What?

Originally Posted by Hollywood

I notice no one had yet used the words adultry or infidelity. I guess we're going to need a definition of "cheating".
Pissing off your mate? What?

No, getting jiggy with someone not your spouse - in person, on the phone, on a chat, in email, whatever !!



Okay, now I have to go beat my husband. I just asked him, he says, i don't know, if nothing happens, then no.

Imma kill him now.