Bless me readers, for I have sinned
by Michele Coelho 
“I cheated on my husband and I will do it again.”
Would you confess your guilty pleasures to millions of strangers?
Apparently many people would.
The NZ Herald website published an article last week about a confession website where people could anonymously post their sins for all and sundry to see.
The site is owned by a romantic novels publisher, Harlequin Enterprises, and it has a specific chat room of each of the seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices.
Those are: gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride and lust.
The first thing you notice when you start browsing the virtual confession room is that while six of the sins have between 13 to 25 posts, LUST has 193 commentaries.
If you dare, you can enter the lust section and find a lot of kinky, highly detailed confessions from men and women.
Some users also take the chance to find others who share the same bizarre desires and invite them for a little get together.
The website is quite interesting and surprising to a degree, but I particularly don’t understand the need for people to disclose so much to complete strangers - even if it is anonymously.
Maybe people just need to know they are not alone in this world when it comes to their unique desires.
But what actually caught my attention were the posts from people who confessed to their extra-marital affairs.
Typical comments divulge how much they liked it, and at the end some wrote how sorry they were and apologised to their wives or husbands.
I spent a lot of time asking myself: why on earth would people reveal their affairs and then apologise to millions of people who, by the way, have nothing to do with their marriage, but not to their own partners?
A spokeswoman for the company said to the NZ Herald:
“[The site] really spawned from the reality shows and the talk shows and people opening up their lives and crying, not necessarily with the people they love but with strangers because it makes you feel better or it somehow cleanses you of your demons”.
Hum, not convincing! I’m sorry if I’m bursting your bubble but the demons are still there as their partners still don’t know the truth and still haven’t forgiven them.
You can call me conservative but I’m all up to coming clean, telling the truth (to the right person) and hoping for the best.