Even a Pandemic Won’t Stop Affairs
It’s probably a good time to talk about monogamy
With much of the country sheltering-in-place with nonessential travel curtailed, it would seem that one human behavior would come to a full stop — affairs.
Maybe lovers are no longer meeting in person, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a whole bunch of hanky-panky going on digitally — something Dr. Phil didn’t seem to factor in when he chewed out people for still carrying on affairs instead of “making sacrifices for the greater good.”
No one’s going to pass on COVID-19 by sexting. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t going to get hurt.
According to Ashley Madison — the “Life’s short. Have an affair” website that had a huge security breach back in the physical affair days — things haven’t slowed down. In fact, according to chief strategy officer Paul Keable, the website is averaging more than 17,000 new members a day.
A day!
“If you step away from the initial shock of what’s come upon us, we see that places like us are likely to have value. The reason to join us is there are fractures, often, at home, and those are going to be amplified, dramatically. So, if you’re under quarantine or in working from home situations with your spouse and not having [the] respite [of] going into the…
