Adultery: will it land you in jail?

You know, I am as dumbfounded as anybody by all these narrow-minded puritanical laws that professes to have a say on what sort of consensual sex you can have and with whom you can have it… BUT… adultery laws are a different matter… You see, even countries with none of the incredibly prurient trends that suffuses American history all have such laws, used to enforce them and still do sometimes. It’s all a matter of social contract and clauses. Getting married, is a contract, not only a contract with each other (that would be the religious aspect of it, of which the State supposedly doesn’t give a rat’s ass about), also with the State: you are in essence taking an engagement vis-a-vis the State, as to who you will be living with, who you’ll be fucking with, who you will have children with etc. In return, the State gives you many props that non-married couples do not have.

Cheating on your partner, then, is basically failing on your agreement with the State (and your partner), for which both the State and you partner are entitled to come after your ass…

Note, that in all this, there is absolutely nothing that says what sort of bond (hetero, homo, child-bearing, bigamous, monogamous etc.) the State ought to recognize (this is something meddled in it by the religious types). The idea is that the State should encourage what improves its stability and the well-being of the People. Not two people likely agree on what this well-being means in concrete terms.

Also note that, while I see the incentive the State may have in encouraging such contracts, I do not necessarily agree with them…

I think this lady is right to press charges against her husband. Infidelity was not part of the deal, when they married! I am sick and tired of all the SEPARATED MEN playing around as well. It’s getting so a woman can’t find an honest single mate, Dominant or otherwise anymore. It does also seem quite the contradiction when a Dominant man can’t control himself and cheats!

As a former Marine, I saw several instances of arrests made under this law. Most of the time, the adultery law in the Uniform Code of Military “Justice” [quotes mine] was enforced on an enlisted man screwing around with an officer’s wife.

That said, there were two instances when I saw a PM carting off an enlisted man because he was having sex outside of marriage — all unmarried consenting adults. In both cases, I discovered that the enlisted man in question was being charged by a high-ranking enlisted man or officer because the higher-up thought the grunt had a poor attitude or something which couldn’t be legally binding.

My final thought is that the government should stay out of the bedroom where any number of consenting adults may be getting little frisky, and that a marriage should be defined as a civil contract between any number of consenting adults, being as loosely regulated as possible.

Many thanks for this forum! Marcus

My wife and a person whom I thaught was my friend are having an affair. I believe they have committed adultery. I was married for 23 years , and have been faithful to her for 30 years. Do I think they should be sent to Jail - YES - I also think that if I were the one committing this unethical and immoral act that I also should be punnished. We have created a world of single minded thaughtless people. The only thaughts are of self gratification. They have no remorse , nor feelings that what they are doing is WRONG.

The only reason laws like this persist is that aggrieved spouses use it as a weapon in divorce cases. A while back someone used an anti-sodomy law to accuse their husband (whom she was divorcing) of breaking the law by having oral sex with her. I believe that the case was thrown out on appeal but the man had originally been convicted.

The state has no business enforcing such laws. It would be better to ensure that, if a marriage has broken down through one spouse straying, a divorce is as speedy and non-traumatic as possible.

People should not be sent to jail for adultery but could perhaps be sued by their partner for breach of contract, a civil not criminal action. The agrieved person then might obtain damages for their distress etc.

Ok I believe their should be laws that would help those who cheat be put on a sort of house arrest. My girlfriend who I was never married to, but was together for nearly 4 years, had a lover for the past 3-4 months. Without telling me. If she broke up with me and went to him it would be ok, but when they don’t tell you, that should be punishable. My point is emotional stress develops and if we don’t clean up our morals… how can we clean up anything else. There’s also the fact that she had unprotected sex with him and myself for those 4 months. If STD’s are shared, CRIMINAL CHARGES should apply. And in some states do.