A long time ago, a very long time ago, the tangible evidence a wife could find of her cheating husband were usually a receipt from a seedy motel long forgotten in his pant pocket or a bill of purchase of a sexy perfume or aftershave, something out of the ordinary for her otherwise staid husband. In some cases though, as in an old movie, the telltale evidence would be the imprint of red lipstick on the collar of his pristine white shirt. All these truly belong to a bygone era, while the latest evidence of relationship betrayal is something governed by the social media. The 'in thing' in these days of mobile phones and instant communication is the surreptitious "sexts" sent by philandering husbands to their home wrecking mistresses.
The latest media sensation has been of the philandering ways of motorcycle badboy Jesse James, husband of, and soon-to-be ex-husband of Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock. The "sexts" he had sent to his tattoo model and stripper mistress Michelle "Bombshell" McGee have come back to bite him on the butt and are doing their rounds on the Internet, much to the outrage of America and the rest of the world at the betrayal of their darling Sandra. And since then there have been at least four other women who have claimed that Jesse had been messing around with them while Sandra was busy filming her movies. How could a man who worked magic with his monster machines have just stupidly wrecked his marriage to America's sweetheart, who was everything that he was not?!?
And then there's Tiger Woods who's taken the game of marital infidelity to a whole new level! Women with whom he'd cheated on his wife Elin Nordegren, have come crawling out of the woodwork and all these pornstars, waitresses, strippers, and so-called models have been having their 15 minutes of fame divulging the salacious details of their relationship with Tiger and releasing the raunchy, crude, cringe-worthy "sexts" he's exchanged with them. What was he thinking? How could this man, hitherto known for his extreme sense of privacy, have been so dumb as to have traded these explicit text messages with these women? Perhaps he thought he was invincible and that the billions he'd earned on the golf circuit and with his endorsement deals made him a sort of demi-god transcending the mundane morality of ordinary folks. God knows!
The sordid stories of celebrity cheating go on and on. An increasing number of men and women have been entranced by the social media and fall prey to these kinds of addictive urges, often forgetting the fact that anything they type or say or write leave digital footprints in cyberspace, never to be deleted and never to be lost. All that is saved and stored in the digital world will come back to haunt them and will be paraded in public by unscrupulous individuals when and where there's money to be made. When people give in to their lust and are foolish enough to flaunt their explicitly sexy thoughts and desires through their back and forth "sexting", enormous damage is done to their reputation, as evidence is piled against them in cyberspace. Whether Tiger Woods or Jesse James will be able to resurrect their reputation or careers remains to be seen, but what proves to be a fact is that "sexting" is the new tool for philandering husbands and lands them inevitably in ignominy and disgrace!
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