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Last week, photos of Bono posing flirtatiously with two bikini-clad 19-year-olds in a St. Tropez bar circled the Internet and garnered much comment.

The young woman who touched off the firestorm by posting the shots on her Facebook page laughed off any suggestion there is something going on between her and the U2 frontman, stating, "God no! I think that for someone so much older than I am ... No thank you." On the other hand, history states much younger women often fall for rich and famous men of a certain age, and vice versa.

Bono has been married for 27 years and, because of his good guy image, he is the rare rock superstar one doesn't immediately assume would cheat on his wife. (The fact that he presents himself as sort of an asexual deity may also contribute to this impression.)

But should we ever expect a rock star to stay faithful to his wife? We debate after the jump.

Every rock star will cheat, and probably needs to.

-- Ballads about regret, forgiveness and hurting the ones you love might be cheesy, but they go gold.

-- A woman who is under the impression her rock star husband would never cheat on her is also the type who will believe him when he claims the naked woman in his bed is part of his next music video, and the cameraman and crew will be here any second. So he might as well ...
-- Word gets out that a rock star is turning down groupies, and the next thing he knows he's playing the five o'clock show in Branson, Missouri.

-- As long he keeps his infidelity to women of a roughly legal age, he can always tell himself he is a better husband than Michael Jackson ever was.


There are a good guys out there -- and a few of them might even be rock stars.

-- The more a rock star keeps it in his pants, the less often descriptions of him being flaccid and sweaty will pop up in thinly veiled Internet blind items.

-- We're pretty sure the Bible says something about infidelity being bad.

-- Robert Plant said it best: "Alimony, alimony paying your bills."

-- Staying faithful to your wife despite the craziness and temptation of life on the road -- now that's punk rock.