A disturbing reaction surfaced under a post about a woman who left her marriage after her husband slept with and impregnated their maid. One user wrote: “First of all, what makes your husband get involved with the maid, did you deny him sex?”
This comment is alarming because it attempts to justify infidelity by transferring blame to the wife. It presents sex as an entitlement owed to a man, rather than a mutual, respectful part of marriage. More troubling is the normalization of crossing boundaries with a domestic worker—a position marked by power imbalance and vulnerability.
Denying sex, even if true, does not excuse betrayal, exploitation, or the destruction of trust within a home. Such statements reinforce harmful narratives that absolve men of responsibility while interrogating women for choices they did not make. Marriage does not suspend accountability, and consent cannot be coerced or replaced with entitlement.
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