Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity

HBO ’s The White Lotus features two young married couples on vacation together at a Sicilian resort.

One couple, Harper and Ethan represent the good moral couple, but the other couple are joyfully in love.

Cameron and Daphne are a game of one -upmanship.

But they both want to be deceived by the other.

It is easy to keep an erotic spark in marriage but most couples would probably prefer not to.

The reason eros disappears from many marriages isn’t for lack of love, but for.

lack of erotic charge.

Neither knows, but each imagines their beloved with another.

“Faithful infidelity” sounds paradoxical, but it is precisely in the couple’s uncertainty that true faith can flourish.

Alice tells her husband about a naval officer she saw in a hotel lobby for only a few minutes , but about whom she developed an abiding sexual fantasy.