Thursday, June 2, 2011

Cybersex as having the pleasure of a stolen cookie

Below I'm going to give a quote from one of the funniest guys writing novels today. It's not his funniest work, but there is a point to it.

In the debate about "Is cybersex cheating?", there seem to be two ends of the debate.

The "Yes, it's cheating," people argue in favor of perfect intimacy. If you reveal all your secrets and fantasies to your partner, you will have a perfect relationship and you will be able to experience all your fantasies within your monogamous relationship.

The "No, it's not cheating, at least not cheating with a capital 'C'," people argue that real relationships don't actually work the way the "yes, it's cheating," crowd pretend they work. Sometimes you want to do something that's nasty with someone other than your partner.

OK. To set up the quote, the book is Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore (official site).