Desire Needs A Home

The more you talk to people, the more time you spend on social media, the more you realise how easy it has become for people to stray outside their marriages. Or outside their long-term relationships. One might wonder what has happened to the world. Both genders are busy blaming each other instead of trying to understand what is actually going on. People who have affairs usually offer a profound justification for them. A mistress, they claim, is good for the marriage because she draws the stress away from home. She absorbs all the strange urges they would rather not burden their wives with. The same holds for women these days. They have realised there are plenty of options out there, and they feel compelled to sample every one of them. But this is not a shopping spree. Both assume that a new affair won't arrive with its own baggage. Then there are people who want an affair but are too afraid to have one. They dwell on the worst-case scenarios. What if somebody finds out? What if the…