The Internet has made sex “accessible, affordable, and anonymous,” as the late researcher Al Cooper pointed out. All of these apply equally to infidelity, and I’d add another a-word: ambiguous. When it’s no longer an exchange of kisses but an exchange of dick pics; when the hour in a motel room has become a late-night Snapchat; when the secretive lunch has been replaced with a secret Facebook account, how are we supposed to know what constitutes an affair? As a result of this burgeoning field of furtive activities, we need to carefully rethink how we conceptualize infidelity in the digital
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