Bonnie Erbe

Media Coverage Turns Husband's Infidelity Into a National Affair

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By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

A Virginia man is getting national attention for marital infidelity. He volunteered to do penance after his wife discovered his six-month affair. His wife suggested he go public. So he's been standing at a busy suburban intersection outside Washington, D.C., sporting a large sign that reads, "I cheated. This is my punishment."

Although the man's identity has not been confirmed and some speculate it may be a publicity stunt or some other kind of hoax, that has not stopped the media frenzy, as his penance has gone global on news Web sites, cable networks, etc. Some women say public humiliation could be a way to make men think twice about cheating. The Washington Post notes that the man is unemployed but his wife has a job.

Methinks I smell a motive.

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do we have an article on 'how men get revenge on their cheating wife'?

someone of IL 4:26PM September 02, 2009

Considering some of the things other wives have done to punish their cheating husbands, William Taylor should consider himself lucky.

Suppose his wife had glued his penis to his stomach like those women in Wisconsin earlier this month?

Suppose his wife had poured boiling water on his crotch like the wife in New York?

Suppose she’d cut off his penis like Lorena Bobbitt did to her husband several years ago.

While it may have been embarrassing for Taylor to stand there with a sign around his neck proclaiming his infidelity for all the world to see, at least he wasn’t harmed in any way.

But I bet he’s learned his lesson by now.

A scorned woman can come up with all sorts of creative ways to exact revenge on a cheating mate.

Check out some of the examples in this article on How Betrayed Wives and Other Infidelity Victims Get Revenge on Their Cheating Mates at http://bit.ly/vrQ7v

Ruth Houston of NY 7:53PM August 28, 2009

Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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