#MicroCheating
“No one should be thought-policed into only being allowed wank about their partner.
Last month the internet was alight with the term ‘micro-cheating’ – “a series of seemingly small actions indicating a person’s emotional or physical focus on someone outside their relationship” – concentrating especially on online entanglements. This read like another Storm Ophelia in a tea-cup, with discussions fixated exclusively on male behaviour within hetero couplings. It felt more like a macro controlling by the sexual thought police, whose anxieties of fantasy and desire incessantly regulate ‘sexuality’.