Attitudes Towards Infidelity

By Lucian Simon Ionesco

Adultery is as old as marriage itself. At the dawn of humanity, adultery lay under the domain of criminal and customary Law, and its proof was so simple that the simple presumption was enough.

 

The most remote legislations contain harsh penalties and sanctions aimed at adulterers. More than the history of adultery itself, we find the story of its social and legal penalization, a perspective from which it has been approached since its study. 

 

As Rosa Mavila points out, female adultery is the one that has been criminalized since the origins of our Law, while male adultery has even been -and is- promoted:
"The double standard - canon, Christian and Western - acts in matter of adultery with absolute clarity. The Adultery of woman is a crime; Adultery of man is a behavior not promoted, but allowed".

For Engels, in the age of savagery and barbarism, family-organized groups were widespread, and the main problem arose when identifying the paternity of children. It was known who the mother was but not who the father was. As the family circle closed, incest was gradually dispensed as a practice, and clans or gens arose that prevented their members from marrying each other. As we know it today, marriage between a man and a woman appears simultaneously with the development of livestock, agriculture, sedentary life, settlement in a specific place, and the learning and practice of certain trades. The man provided the breadwinner for the family, while the Woman was almost exclusively a consumer. When the man died thus, the riches as they increased.

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Editorial Atelerix Creative Quill
• Release date: Apr 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201456429

Lucian Simon Ionesco

I'm 51-year-old; I have a degree in psychology, specializing in motivation and mental disorders.I'm a Brazilian Christian, and I define myself as straight, and I'm a vegetarian. I grew up in an upper-class neighborhood. I was raised by my father and my mother, having left when I was young. I'm currently single. My most recent romance was with an artist called Ophelia Dana Phillips, who was 12 years older than me. We broke up because Ophelia felt Lucian was too busy for the relationship. My best friend is a chorus actor called Keira Morales. We get on well most of the time. I also hang around with Glenn Rees and Arran Davis. We enjoy worship together. I have decided to start my work writing since currently, due to the pandemic, I require an additional income. With the support of the Atelerix publishing house, I want to start giving my general knowledge about everything I have studied in my city to swim all this time. I hope that you fully recognize my writing and support me, especially if you have a loved one you can support with my knowledge; I will be more than happy to support me with a review of my book.

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Introduction

Adultery is as old as marriage itself. At the dawn of humanity, adultery lay under the domain of criminal and customary Law, and its proof was so simple that the simple presumption was enough.

The most remote legislations contain harsh penalties and sanctions aimed at adulterers. More than the history of adultery itself, we find the story of its social and legal penalization, a perspective from which it has been approached since its study.

As Rosa Mavila1 points out, female adultery is the one that has been criminalized since the origins of our Law, while male adultery has even been -and is- promoted:

"The double standard - canon, Christian, and Western - acts in

matter of adultery with absolute clarity. The Adultery of woman is a crime; Adultery of man is a behavior not promoted, but allowed".

For Engels, in the age of savagery and barbarism, family-organized groups were widespread, and the main problem arose when identifying the paternity of children. It was known who the mother was but not who the father was. As the family circle closed, incest was gradually dispensed as a practice, and clans or gens arose that prevented their members from marrying each other. As we know it today, marriage between a man and a woman appears simultaneously with the development of livestock, agriculture, sedentary life, settlement in a specific place, and the learning and practice of certain trades. The man provided the breadwinner for the family, while the Woman was almost exclusively a consumer when the man died. Thus, the riches as they increased.

On the one hand, they gave men a more important position than women in the family. On the other hand, they gave  him the idea of ​​using this advantage to modify the order of inheritance for the benefit of their children  established."

The beginning of the end

For Engels, this is the historical moment in which monogamy arises, which at its root is a woman's obligation so that the husband can transmit his assets to his children since for this, the man "needed to know with certainty that those were their children and not from another parent.

Perhaps the oldest source that contains clear prescriptions about adultery is the Holy Bible, specifically in the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy in the Old Testament:

If anyone commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, he shall put both the adulterer and the adulteress to death.

(Lev. 20, 10)

If a man is caught lying with a woman married, both will be sentenced to death. This is how they will end you with the evil in Israel.

(Deuteronomy 22, 22)

The divine origin of marriage is common to every culture; its celebration became a religious festival and was later elevated to the category of a sacrament.

Theologians today consider the conception of a God of forgiveness and love in the New Testament instead of the persecuting and punishing God who spoke to the Hebrew people through the Old Testament. Cabanellas3 points out that Jesus Christ, who elevates marriage to a sacrament and bases it on monogamy, fidelity, and the love of the spouses, does not establish a strict sentence for adulterers. To the astonishment and anger of his enemies, he still forgives the adulterous Woman, no less impure than other sinners. This redemptive notion is noted in the writings of Saint John:

The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees then brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They placed her in the midst of all those present and said to Jesus: Teacher, this woman has been caught committing adultery. Moses ordered that this class of women is stoned to death in our Law; what do you say? (...) But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. Then, as they kept asking him, he straightened up and said: Whoever of you has no sin, let him cast the first stone. And they all left one by one, starting with the oldest. And they left Jesus alone with the Woman who was still standing in the middle. Then he straightened up and said to her: Woman, where are