Lisa Best woke up in the middle of the night and turned to see her husband of four years, John, sitting in bed next to her, hunched over his lap-top, submerged in the online fantasy world Second Life.

John’s avatar was having gay sex in a virtual dungeon. The next day, Lisa discovered images John had saved of his bondage-happy character strolling down a nudist beach, blindfolded, with a whip in his hand.

“It was sick. He called himself Troy Hammerthall and hung around at a place called the Bondage Ranch.”

John came home from work, and Lisa told him to pack his bags and leave. He moved in with a friend. Lisa has her reasons:

I could kind of understand it if he was having sex with a woman. At least then I could ask him what it was that I wasn’t giving him and maybe try to work it out. But if it’s men he fancies, then our marriage is a complete sham and there is nothing I can do.

For his part, John says that he was only doing it “for a laugh.” “I was just messing about on there,” he said. “I’m the world’s least gay man.”

Doesn’t sound like it, Johnny boy — the only thing that’s gayer than virtual man-on-man dungeon sex is naming your avatar Troy Hammerthall.

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I caught my hubby virtually at it with another man (News of the World, via Fark)