Tall tales and lap dances

Dear Margo: My husband, “Sean,” and I have been married for eight and a half years and known each other for nine. Almost two years ago, my husband was on a business trip a few states away from where we live. He and a few friends went to a strip club to drink and watch the strippers strut their stuff.

Now, in the state we live in, they are only allowed to show off their bikinis after stripping off their clothes, but in the state where he was, they took everything off. Anyway, as most guys do, he got a lap dance, which I guess is a common thing with the type he hangs out with.

Then another thing occurred that has me a bit riled up. He paid to go into the back room and get a private “strip/lap dance.” The problem I have is that my husband claims that while this stripper was on his lap, all they did was talk about their families. For some reason I doubt that a man would pay $100 for a private lap dance just to talk about his family with a stripper.

That night he called me and told me about what had transpired and swore that nothing had happened other than a naked woman who was not me sat on his lap. Am I overreacting, or should I threaten him that if I find out from his “friends” that there was more going on than talking, there will be some serious consequences? — Desperate To Get Over My Frustration

Dear Des: What is it with these lap dances? Yours is not the first letter I’ve gotten from a furious wife. I think it is highly unlikely any of his “friends” will rat him out, but I would tell him that you don’t for a minute believe his version, and for his sake, you hope there are no more outings involving naked ladies and his lap.

I do not know exactly how this happened, but it is becoming common for businessmen to entertain clients and each other in strip clubs. I find it tacky and declasse. — Margo, traditionally

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Dear Margo is written by Margo Howard, Ann Landers’ daughter. All letters must be sent via e-mail to [email protected]. Due to a high volume of e-mail, not all letters will be answered.