What is Cuckolding and Why Are Folks Still Offended By It?
What happens in someone else’s bedroom is none of your business.
Four years ago, Jerry Falwell, Jr. resigned his post as president of Liberty University. Not because he controversially refused to require students to be tested for COVID-19 before returning to campus that fall. Not because many students and faculty chafed at his long-term efforts to silence social dissent on, and sometimes off, school grounds. Nor was it because he had posted a photo of himself with his pants unzipped on social media.
He resigned because he’s into cuckolding and people found out.
Make no mistake, this was not the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. The other issues listed above were easily ignored, glossed over, minimized, covered up, or forgiven by the conservative Christian community in which he operates.
But inviting a pool boy into his bedroom, so Falwell could watch him have sex with his wife, was too much.
If he had cheated on his wife? That can be forgiven, even in deeply conservative circles. But, somehow, being cuckolded by his wife made him a person who could no longer be trusted. Why?
I find myself wondering why cuckolding is so taboo. After almost 20 years in the sex…
