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Due to its asynchronous and discreet nature, people don’t have to be in physical proximity or expect immediate responses.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Texting is the opposite of discreet. It produces a written record of everything that’s said.

[–] cmrn 18 points 4 months ago

That’s why I use the untraceable Xbox party chat

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Yeah but going through your partners phone without consent is a breach of trust and asking to go through their phone only happens once you suspect something. I'd say texting makes cheating easier to hide but also easier to prove

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Apps like Snapchat, signal and WhatsApp offer disappearing messages. And all three of those aren’t recorded by your carrier. What then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Snapchat and WhatsApp aren't private

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

To giant megacorp… no

To your significant other… very much so

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You make it sound like texting is something new. I guess "new" is relative and cheating is probably as old as the concept of monoamory itself, so I guess in the grand scale of things, it is recent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, “new” as in the past 30 years ca previous hundreds

[–] Rhynoplaz 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I know this is true FOR A FACT.

I sold phones in the early 2000s and had at least one customer with only ONE condition. Unlimited text, because his girlfriend was married.

Also, that's how my ex-wife used to chat with my former best friend

[–] Lost_My_Mind 23 points 4 months ago

Also, that’s how my ex-wife used to chat with my former best friend

grabs popcorn

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

that's how my ex-wife used to chat with my former best friend

sounds like they deserve each other

[–] Rhynoplaz 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, they couldn't be together because he had to go to prison. Free advice: before you sucker punch someone for having "a look", make sure they aren't a Federal Agent having a beer after work.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 22 points 4 months ago

I KNEW I'd need this popcorn!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That had to be some serious schadenfreude. Congrats!

[–] peopleproblems 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

My ex wife prefered snap chat.

So you know, I just happened to get traumatized by another dudes dick in my wife's phone after her nude photos I've never seen. I don't know who he was other than her admitting it was a guy she cheated on me with 5 years ago.

No I'm not over it. Its been over a year, and because of the toxic nature of our relationship I don't have confidence to go out there and meet other people. It's fine, I'm fine. I've got video games and a shower to cry in.

But fuck smartphones. I hate this goddamn technology more than I hate my ex.

[–] Plopp 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That sucks. But it also happened before smartphones. Ask me how I know.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Sexting via carrier pigeon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

How do you know?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Are you the dude who texted @[email protected] their wife?

[–] Rhynoplaz 3 points 4 months ago

It takes a long time for that hurt to go away. It eventually will, mostly.

Take your time. It'll be better.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, man :/ I hope you feel better some day soon - it'll all pass! I'm sure you've heard all the platitudes before tho. What games you playing ATM? 👀

[–] peopleproblems 2 points 4 months ago

Elden Ring, Helldivers when I need to calm down from Elden Ring, and Factorio when I need to cool it from Helldivers.

I sprinkle in a little Diablo IV and No Man's Sky too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fuck cheaters. They're pieces of shit. You wanna cheat? Fix your shit, or leave your relationship you human piece of shit.

[–] orgrinrt 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m not sure if an affair directly implies cheating.

There are many ways to coexist with a partner or partners, and many ways to cheat or otherwise lie/conceal stuff.

Neither as a premise include an affair, but both certainly can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I disagree, I believe that when people use the term affair they're explicitly referring to something non consensual which would mean cheating. I've never heard it used to imply anything related to any form of ethical non monogamy. (But I may be wrong.)

[–] orgrinrt 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The way I understand the word, it’s more of a “fling”, or a short-term relation, as opposed to something long-lasting or structured. Which, for example, can be fully okay and include no shadiness if it’s communicated with the partner or partners.

I guess words change meaning over time, and since the default has been monogamy for so long, the word is still stigmatized and associated with cheating since it means something short?

As an example, single people can often be heard to have had vacation affairs, which wouldn’t imply cheating since they are single. But the word is used in that context too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Emotional cheaters are still cheaters. All fucking cheaters can be taken straight to the fucking trash. I don't care how they do it. I don't care when or what time or age or whatever blah, blah, blah - I just strongly hold the stance fuck cheaters. I'm not talking about a stroll in the park, or a business plan. I am talking about people who are snakes who intentionally and selfishly walk past a series of boundaries and filters because they've got their heads in their asses.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unless they cheat by going to a same sex couple. Then it is somehow ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Beldarofremulak 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's called sarcasm. You can tell by the "somehow ok" part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get that, but it still makes it sound like there is some group of people who believe it isn't cheating if they're the same sex.

[–] Beldarofremulak 1 points 4 months ago

That's because there are people that don't view "discovering your sexuality" as cheating. Just like there are people that think affair partners are morally clean if they are single because they "aren't in a relationship so they aren't the one cheating".

The world is mostly garbage and that person's joke was just drawing attention to a slice of that shit pie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I thought about this the other day because one of the comedians on Dr. Katz eventually came out as gay. And I am most certain he cheated on his SO during that time. But also people still cruise, and I think there is a lot of cheating between individuals of some queer nature who seemingly want more than they can barter for as a whole. Because I am not saying monogamy is the only way, it's just the way for me. But that's neither here nor there. I just want to say that I grew up sort of staggering between two generations. All my friends at one time were older than me, and I got a lot of Gen X influence from that - while still being a stanky Millennial. I can't speak on what exactly Gen X thought could or would be plausible for the queer community as a whole. Because I only know what I thought. And what I thought, was that we could never get married. That we would always have to live our lives in the shadows. And I have lived a considerable amount of my own life in the closet - even when I am a loud and proud lesbian. On account of the default thinking of individuals being that I am just a quirky individual yet nice individual, and that I was I guess...too nice to be gay? Because being gay, for quite some time, was pretty much the worst thing you could be. It meant you were a pedophile, a rapist, mentally ill, damned for all eternity - etc. And I mean, I am not saying that we're leaps and bounds from that, but it is relatively better.

But a simple explanation I've given my gal, who comes from a very different background that me - is that in certain communities you "cannot even be gay." Like it's like an option that doesn't even exist, and it was that way for a long time. And I do know that it has changed a bit, but it's yet again - not by leaps and bounds. And the are still socially acceptable behaviors that straights get to tout 100xs more than queers regardless of how many radical marches or "funny characters" you see in the media.

So this all circles back to individuals like cruisers - or people who cheat with same sex individuals. All cheating, as I said before, I think is bullshit. And no, I don't think being in an non-monogamous relationship with another individual and having sex with other individuals means they're cheating. I do think there can be cheating, when you're not playing by the rules or breaking others boundaries intentionally without conversing on it and knowingly harming or lying to your partner(s) for your own personal gain. But even that's kind of simplified view of it all. But I mean I am aware that we're human, and they we're flawed - and that cheating is nothing new and that to some it means far more than to others. And that there is also a huge debate on whether or not humans themselves are monogamous or if it's a puritanical social construct. BUT! If I never thought that we could get married, yet lo and behold - we can. I am not sure what I would do personally if I didn't think I could be actively gay. As in, if I were an individual trapped in a relationship that perhaps mentally fulfilled me but physically couldn't. Or that the very act of something my body needed - was sinful. But also, you know some people get off on that stuff.

But all things aside, this is to say - that I think that this is a larger and more complicated issue than just wanting to bang someone. I mean, all cheating can have layers to it - but queer sex has generations of oppression that individuals are either trying to combat or hide (I think it shifts by generation but of course there's always outliers). And so in this sense I believe if there were some kind of "green-pass" to same-sex cheating it'd probably be due to something here.

But in my view, there isn't. And I think you might be a little homophobic if you're not joking. And also I am a queer who doesn't believe in that stuff, and I was dating a guy at the time I came out and we most definitely split before I ever was deep in the poon. So it's not like we're all just a bunch of cheating heathens.

[–] Cryophilia 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Snapchat seems to be explicitly designed for this with automatic message deletion

[–] peopleproblems 2 points 4 months ago

Not as automatic as they desire. Or I desire.