Woman Refusing To Let Husband Visit Strip Club Divides Internet: 'Cheating'

The internet has been left divided by a woman's viral post about her husband going to a strip club.

First shared Monday on the popular forum Mumsnet, the post has seen hundreds of responses.

User Hexagonmum wrote: "My husband is off to Vegas for his brother's bachelor party. There's a whole bunch of them going together which is fine as they'll have a great time. My concern is I've overheard them on their video chat speaking of going to a strip joint.

"I don't want my husband going to a strip joint... just because it's a bachelor party, doesn't mean they have to act like idiots and all excited about seeing strippers"

She shared that after speaking to her husband, he said: "If all his boys are going to the strip joint, he doesn't want to be the only one not going," but the poster stood firm, stating that she would class it as cheating.

A survey by Onlinegambling.ca asked 1,000 married Americans about what really happens at bachelor and bachelorette parties. One in nine people said that their spouses didn't know the whole story and had lied to their partner about what had happened at the party, while 4 percent of women said they flirted or received a lap dance but did nothing more, whereas almost 13 percent of men did the same.

But only 0.2 percent of women admitted to actually engaging in sexual intercourse and just under 0.9 percent of men said the same.

Responses on the viral Mumsnet post were mixed, with many siding with the poster and others suggesting she may be overreacting.

"I wouldn't see it as cheating," wrote one user: "It will be awkward for him if he has to say he isn't allowed."

While another wrote: "What you gonna do if he goes?! Divorce?! He obviously doesn't have a problem with strippers-it's you who does. You're not the one going, he is. You don't own him."

Meanwhile, many respondents sided with the poster—agreeing that a visit to the strip club was a step too far. One user commented: "I completely agree with you, even going to get aroused by another woman is cheating. Honestly tell him straight if he partakes he won't be welcome back."

Another user wrote: "I understand why you don't want him going. I never looked at my husband the same way after he had a lap dance at his bachelor party."

But the original poster Hexagonmum stood firm. She later updated the thread: "So my husband's brother (the one who is getting married) came over, we were chatting away and my husband said we should talk about what I said about the strip joint. I told my brother-in-law my opinion and he said his other half is fine with him going as long as he doesn't get a lap dance.

"What is wrong with women who condone this?? How is it ok in your eyes?"

But one user turned the tables and commented: "If your friends were going to see Magic Mike would you just stay in your hotel room? I would certainly not say I'm weak because I'm ok with my partner visiting a strip club, the same way my partner was fine when I went to see Magic Mike a few months ago. Because we both know it's not real."

Earlier this month, the internet slammed a new mom who insisted on attending her partner's bachelor party with a new baby.