The bad idea file: Adultery via text messaging
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Over at Above The Law, we’ve been writing about a sordid sext scandal, involving a Florida lawyer, a husband working in Canada, and his wife. To “protect the privacy” of those involved, my co-editor invented monikers: SexyLexus, Miami White, and Cuckolded in Canada.
Despite our site’s being a legal tabloid, we won’t write about just any old sex scandal. This one caught our attention because Miami White is a senior associate in the Florida office of a big corporate law firm. Cuckolded had moved from Florida to Canada to pursue work opportunities there, and left his wife and four children living in Miami.
When Cuckolded in Canada discovered that his wife — who’s also an online porn star who goes by the name Lexus — had let Miami White rev her engine, he was pissed. (Even though they were separated, according to SexyLexus.) Cuckolded discovered the affair on a surprise trip back to Florida. He found his wife’s abandoned BlackBerry in a drawer and came across a series of text messages. He then captured those messages and sent them out in an angry e-mail to many attorneys at Miami White’s prestigious law firm.
Here’s an excerpt from Above The Law:
Miami White: Am in bed…. reading and thinking of you.
SexyLexus: I would love to cuddle with you right now smell u kiss u talk to u.
Miami White: And much much more. Me too.
SexyLexus: You’re going to stay home? Call me later if u want….
Miami White: Yes, not going out…. Not sure I can go a day without seeing you again.
SexyLexus: I’m dying.
Of course, Cuckolded’s version to the law firm used all the parties’ real names.
Embarassing? Yes! Preventable? A more emphatic yes! Don’t conduct your affairs via text!
Kwame Kilpatrick could be the poster child for that public service announcement. The inboxes on cell phones and smartphones are not especially private. In general, carrying out your affairs electronically is not a good idea, but at least e-mail has a password. Though that won’t keep the NSA from reading it.
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Another option would be to not have affairs.
But I’m boring and married. Who knows what the kids with their “hopes” and “dreams” are into these days.
Not that I endorse this kind of behavior, but deleting messages is so easy. But if the husband/wife are separated, is it still that bad? I say let the lovebirds be together. I wasn’t mad at Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Patient, so I really can’t hate on Miami White and Sexy Lexus, either. If Cuckolded is the type who’d get so vindictive and would try to ruin another man’s career, maybe Sexy Lexus should wrap up the divorce ASAP.
But Sexting is the most romantic technological advance in courtship since the invention of the “XO” abbreviations! Who can resist its siren call? I am pretty sure I heard on the Today Show that 100% of teenagers are doing it RIGHT NOW, and that was before lawyers learned about it.
I don’t know, Alex. I think the Facebook poke trumps sexting as the best digital tool for seduction.