How do you define "Adultery"?

I just found out that in liberal Massachusetts, adultery is a felony punishable by three years in jail. This law dates back to the Puritan era and no one has the guts to get rid of it.

I'm a felon! (potentially)

 

A pox on thee, and all of thy house!

 

I hope you're not in the U.S. military. It's a court-martial offense, you know. (UCMJ, article 134, paragraph 62.)

 

:rofl: Sunfighter is about as far from military as a human being can get! :rofl:

 

Why try to change the definition of the word? I'm adulterous, my husband is adulterous, and we're both happy about it. If the parts involved don't care, why should anyone?

 

You all can have your own definitions of what a word means but that dosnt change the definition of what the word actually means. And taking a quote from wikipedia...well i just skipped that part because..well its wikipedia.
Reading this kind of makes me think of gays. At one time (including now) and depending on societies it was bad to be gay people have and will be killed for it. But times are changing it happens less often and new states are allowing gay marraige all the time...does that change the definition of gay? Because its now more accepted?

 

Legality has always been an issue for debate, not only according to what country you happen to be in but in the case of the US, what state.

This is an article about penalties imposed merely for masturbating - the most innocent of all sexual acts:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/blog/2013/sep/19/masturbation-laws-world-penal-code

 

Cheating on your loved one, even in your Fantasy.

 

Adultery is what adults do in a monastery.

lol!

 

lol!

 

So, the first year after my marriage, I had sex with seven other women. But we had an open marriage and my wife knew everything she wanted to know. Is that adultery? I don't think so.

 

Good Point.

 

I usually go by the dictionary. It has proven to be handy to all use the same definition

 

I agree, but it's kind of like the Second Amendment. When the original words/definition were written, the world was a different place and now we have to figure out their real meaning.

So, way back, there was no such thing as open marriage. So the idea that someone could have sex outside their marriage and still not be doing anything wrong was completely foreign, but isn't the breaking of a promise at the heart of what adultery really means?

 

hit the nail on the head...i guess some peoples vows could have been, to love and cherish you, and anyone we agree that we can fuck. but im guessing that dosnt happen often, i would like to get a reaction shot of grandma when it does though.

 

Some people just take the monogamy stuff out of the vows.

 

I can imagine that just like over here dictionaries are updated with nuances and expansions over there as well :2thumbsup:

 

It wasn't until fairly recently that people chose to take the really contraversial option of omitting the the 'obey' from the "Love, Honour & Obey" marriage vows. Then it wasn't that long until they started to make their own vows altogether.
Now, of course, more & more places are beginning to allow

Gay Marriage, which is a massive step forward, seeing as it was only about 50 years ago that Homosexuality was still illegal in the UK (indeed, Oscar Wilde was famously convicted of it & sent to prison, where he wrote "The Ballad Of Reading Jail").

Times do change, albeit most of the time far too slowly, due to being held back by political & moral dogma - but we're getting there.