Strip club rebuttal

Dear Editor,

I am writing in response to Jeanine Cardullo's article "One last outing with friends."I was disappointed to find that her editorial embraced a strip club as a better alternative to a stripper performing at private residences.

How can she think that a man will be less aroused by a stripper in a club than a stripper in his home? She acts as if proximity is the issue.

Well, it is not. Either way, with the woman in his lap or on the stage, visual stimulation is just as strong, just as arousing. The "pledged fidelity" is already broken, before the marriage ever begins.

When a man or woman decides to indulge in taking the last chance to spend time with someone of the opposite sex - they prefer intimacy with a total stranger - before leaving the single state, that shows how little they value the married state.

They might as well not get married; it sounds like they would rather stay single anyway and not be held back by the "world's smallest handcuff."

Marriage is the greatest chance for a person to spend time with someone of the opposite sex; one person with whom you are committed and will spend the rest of your life.

It is hardly a limiting prison, but rather the greatest freedom. Done right, a marriage is carried out in exclusivity before God, with no room for anyone to steal your attention from your spouse, or vice versa.

And the chance to be loved and known by someone in that way is more than any stripper could ever do.