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"Sticking It to Courtney Bee"
She answers your sex and relationship questions...cheekily
Today's Stinging Question:
Dear Courtney,
Recently my boyfriend went to a strip club as part of a bachelor party, despite the fact that I’ve always told him that strip clubs were forbidden. My girlfriend’s husband (who also went to the club that night) said that he told her my boyfriend got an “amazing” lap dance and I went ballistic. Now I feel like I have every right to kick his ass to the curb. He’s supposed to have eyes only for me, and naked girls writhing against him and offering to do who knows what is cheating in my opinion. How, under any context, is the man I love visiting a strip club okay? Am I overreacting? Should I give him another chance?
—Trippin’ Over Strippin’
Courtney Bee Takes It:
Dear Trippin’ Over Strippin’,
Overreacting? Well...how do I put this? The term hell yes comes to mind. While the average woman won’t experience gleeful tingles when she finds out her man plans to spend the evening with his buddies at a house of silicone, there’s no reason to let jealousy or fear create a mountain out of a mole hill. A quick refresher on the male brain: Guys like naked women, and if one naked woman is good then two are even better. Multiply this theory until you have enough women to fill a strip club, and the male brain lights up like a Christmas tree. Most men have the uncanny ability to separate sex and feelings, so watching Maxi Mounds shake her assets doesn’t mean he longs to make the spray-tanned siren his girlfriend. A bonus: The stripper doesn’t yell at him to clean up his toenail clippings or harass him into going to her cousin’s baby shower. And the ego boost of having women coo over him like he’s Brad Pitt (even if he’s a dead ringer for Steve Buschemi) certainly adds to the experience.
As long as your boyfriend doesn’t have a history of infidelity, doles out plenty of hot lovin’ to you on a regular basis, and his visits to clubs aren’t so regular that all the strippers know his mother’s astrological sign, then cut the guy a little slack. The bottom line? As long as he gets his nooky from you—not a stripper—then let him enjoy the occasional rowdy night out with the boys at a nudie bar. Or if you’re really bold, offer to join him every so often. I once got the sole female invitation to a guys night out at a strip club and ended up getting free lap dances, much to the envy of my male compatriots—and I had a blast! Or grab your girlfriends and get thyself to a Chippendale’s. Seeing hot male dancers shake their moneymakers and being able to control yourself from humping their legs or asking them out for a drink might reinforce the fact that most people visiting clubs aren’t there to cheat on their partners. If a guy is a cheater, then it won’t matter whether he’s in a strip club or a church—he’ll find a way get some on-the-side tail.