Do you think "sexting" with other people (strangers online) when you are in a relationship is cheating?

Every guy who asks me for sexting says " it's not cheating we are strangers and it means nothing" or " it's just some virtual pleasure you don't need to think about it as a cheating"
Do you think sexting with other people (strangers online) when you are in a relationship is cheating?
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Most Helpful Guys

  • It really depends what you think your partner feels a out it. Honestly I dont think its cheating since your not actually doing anythung physically sexual. However it also does t mean that it's ok to do, unless your partner knows your doing it and is fine with it then its something thats hurtful. However the part that may make it desirable and somethung that's especially exciting and fun is because its something that adding excitement and the fact it's not on or it's a secret or that your sneaking around all makes it risky and dangerous and higher risk activities mixed with sex usually makes sex better and somewhat addictive in their own right

  • Whether that (or anything, really) is cheating in your relationship depends on what you and your partner consider cheating. Those douchebags saying that to you are full of shit, because it's not up to them to decide what is and what isn't cheating in YOUR relationship.

Most Helpful Girls

  • To me it is.

    Lol it's like saying to someone who is in a relationship:

    "Hey wanna have sex?
    Don't worry its just for pleasure, it ain't cheating"
    (Just not THAT bad cause it's virtual)

    Generally speaking if you kiss/sext/have sex with someone etc. while ur in a relationship then yeah ur cheating :)

    • True being in relationship it's a cheating

  • To me anything sexual or flirtatious or anything that crosses the borders of friendship, is cheating.

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  • It draws a person away from a relationship and not towards one's SO. It can, also, be a betrayal of trust if the relationship is supposed to be monogamous. People can come up with all kinds of excuses to justify infidelity in a relationship even if it doesn't involve actual physical sex.

  • Sexting can be nice once in a while but it's definitely cheating.
    I'd only be open to it when I'm not in a committed relationship.

  • For me, yes it is if you’re both in a monogamous relationship.

  • It’s cheating, you’re crossing a platonic line with someone while in a relationship.

  • I think any sexual or romantic interaction between two people outside of the relationship is cheating. So yes, sexting is cheating.

  • It is a "grey area" in a relationship.

    If you find pleasure in doing it, then your spouse shouldn't interfere with it. Just like if you are sexually frustrated when you want sex, but, your spouse refuses to be intimate with you, how is that fair? Marriage needs affection to survive. If not, does that define "Being trapped in a marriage"?

    • But, in technicality, you're not coerced into staying in the marriage. Same goes for standard relationships.

    • @LeRetard Technicality... no. Politically, Judicially, and Financially.. Men have been forced, by laws and personal judgements, to pay for broken relationships in ways that the feminine half of the relationship don't.

    • Without including the terrible political standards in US, The option is there, divorce is always at hand if necessary. That is the point I am making. Whether it's complex to go through the process due to political/financial issues, you must have been aware of this before legalising the marriage?

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  • Your going to have to sext me so afterwards I can think about it

  • I don't think it's cheating. As long as it doesn't turn into feelings.

    • Yeah so sexting?

  • its cheating.

  • Yes, absolutely

  • Yes and it leads to cheating

  • Usually yes but it depends. I mean if it is on GAG then I would say it is like porn. But if he is sexting some girl he new from high school.. like a real person he knows in real life then that is cheating. He if is sexting in some virtual reality video game... then no. not cheating (second life).

  • That is something you need to discuss with your partner. For me it is not, it really depends on boundaries and expectations you should define with partner

  • Cheating. Cut that dickhead off

  • Yes. Unless you've discussed with OH and they are ok with it

  • It's definitely cheating the guys are just trying to coax you.
    Unless you and your partner are open about.

  • I appreciate how many will say any form of cheating is wrong - and I won't disagree with that... it's a personal threshold thing. Some people won't even allow themselves to be alone with someone of the opposite sex when fully clothed and the reason is not sexual at all (for example, the US VP will not have a meal with another woman alone).

    In my opinion, I think sexting is, on a relative cheating scale, a minor thing.

    I don't think you can compare it to actually having physical sex with someone. I think sexting is a notch above if you masturbate when watching porn or reading erotica. But it's miles away from actually having physical sex with someone.

    More problematic and a level higher would be if you were sexting with an ex or someone you had sex with before. And it would be similarly as worse if it was with someone your SO is friends with.

    But if it's someone your SO has never met - nor have you for real - then I think it would it be a very minor thing. That all said, I appreciate and respect anyone who feels it's wrong and should not be done.

  • Thats cheating

  • That's because guys don't think of the emotional side of things like women do. Would a woman think that a man is cheating if he called a phone sex number

  • Is it gonna make your partner feel cheated on? Then it's cheating.

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