Adultery is generally defined as consensual sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their lawful spouse. The common synonym for adultery is infidelity as well as unfaithfulness or in colloquial speech, cheating. The sexual partner of a person committing adultery is often referred to in legal documents (especially divorce proceedings) as a co-respondent, while the person whose spouse has been unfaithful is often labeled a cuckold; originally, the latter term was applied only to males, but in more recent times ...

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Historically adultery has been subject to severe sanctions including the death penalty and has been grounds for divorce under fault-based divorce laws. In some places the method for punishing adultery was traditionally stoning to death. Wives have usually been more harshly punished that husbands, however this arises from biological necessity - a cheating wife could lead to a husband providing for a child who was not any blood relation of his, whereas a cheating husband would at least not lead to the wife providing for a "cuckoo's child". How ...

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The theme of adultery features in a wide range of literature through the ages. This is hardly surprising, as the fact of adultery has been a part of the human existence for as long as there has been marriage. As a theme it automatically brings its own conflict, between the people concerned and between sexual desires and a sense of loyalty; it brings intense emotions into the foreground, and has consequences for all concerned. As marriage and family are often regarded as basis of society a story of adultery often shows the conflict b ...

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In biology, the term Coolidge effect describes the re-arousal of a male animal by the introduction of a new female. The sex difference that the effect refers to is explained by Bateman's principle. Some researchers think that exposure to the pheromones of a new female is a significant factor in this phenomenon. The term comes from an old joke according to which President Calvin Coolidge and his wife visited a government farm one day and were taken around on separate tours. Mrs. Coolidge, passing the chicken pens, inquired of a supervisor whether the lone rooster was ...

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The material for the study of Babylonian law is singularly extensive. The so-called "contracts" exist in the thousands, including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts, and most important of all, the actual legal decisions given by the judges in the law courts. Historical inscriptions, royal charters and rescripts, dispatches, private letters and the general literature afford welcome supplementary information. Even grammatical and lexicographical works contain many extracts or short sentences bearing on law and custom. The ...

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A cuckold is a person with a sexually unfaithful partner, typically a married man. There are connotations of helplessness and humiliation attributed to the word: implications that the husband lacks the strength to enforce the fidelity due to a man, and too weak or henpecked to leave or divorce her. Although historically it was a term used socially, when a man's wife gave birth to a child not his, nowadays it is more commonly associated with sexuality, and especially power exchange, sexual humiliation and erotic sexual denial. Including:

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This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Interpersonal relationships are social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people. They vary in differing levels of intimacy and sharing, implying the discovery or establishment of common ground, and may be centered around something(s) shared in common. The study of relationships is of concern to socio ...

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This list of names for the Biblical nameless compiles names given in Jewish or Christian mythology for characters who are unnamed in the Bible itself. List of names for the Biblical nameless - Hebrew Bible. List of names for the Biblical nameless - Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs. Source: the apocryphal book of Jubilees Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4-5 The book of Jubilees provides names for a host of unnamed Biblical characters ...

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• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Noah's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Nimrod's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Potiphar's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Pharaoh's magicians
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Job's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Jephthah's daughter
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Witch of Endor
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Architect of the Temple of Solomon
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Queen of Sheba
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - New Testament
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Magi
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Nativity shepherds
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Herodias' daughter
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Syrophoenician woman
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Hæmorrhaging woman
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Samaritan Woman at the Well
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Damned rich man
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Woman taken in adultery
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Pontius Pilate's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Thieves crucified with Jesus
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Soldier who pierced Jesus with a spear
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Man who offered Jesus vinegar
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Guards at Jesus' tomb
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Cleopas's companion on the road to Emmaus
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Betrayal, as a form of deception, is the violation of a social contract (trust, confidence) that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship between individuals, organizations, or individuals and organizations. Betrayal - Overview. Betrayal - Defining betrayal. Rodger L. Jackson, author of the article, The Sense and Sensibility of Betrayal: Discovering the Meaning of Treachery Through Jane Austin, writes that "there has been surprisingly little written ...

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Chin is a god in the Mayan pantheon often represented as a dwarf or a small child. He is said to have introduced homoerotic relationships to the Maya. Nobles would take lower class youths to be lovers to their sons. These unions were akin to legal marriages under Mayan law, and any attempt on the honor of the younger boy was punishable as adultery. Other related archivesMayan, adultery, homoerotic

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A legal finding of connivance may be made when an accuser has assisted in the act about which they are complaining. In some legal jurisdictions, and for certain behaviors, it may prevent the accuser from prevailing. For example, if someone were to entice their spouse to commit adultery, they might be blocked (or estopped) from divorcing their spouse on grounds of that adultery. Other related archivesestopped

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39 - Events. Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters. Domitius Afer secures a consulship. Caligula is also a consul. Agrippa I, king of Iudaea, is recalled to Rome. Legio XV Primigenia and XXII Primigenia are levied by Caligula for the German frontier. The Trung Sisters resist the Chinese influences in Vietnam. 39 - Births. No ...

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Zina (زنا) is an Arabic term for extramarital or premarital sex. Islamic law prescribes severe punishments for both men and women for the act of zina. Premarital sex may be punished by up to 100 lashes, while adultery is punished by Rajm. However, the act must be attested by at least four witnesses of good character. Punishments are decided by the legal authorities, and false accusations are also punished. Among the many interpretations of Islamic law, this is the m ...

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41 - Events. January 24 - Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor. Claudius makes Agrippa king of Judea. Messalina, wife of Claudius, persuaded Claudius to have Seneca the Younger banished to Corsica on a charge of adultery with Julia Livilla. 41 - Births. Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina Marcus Valerius Martialis (possible birthdate) 41 - Deaths. January 24 ...

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In Irish mythology, Boann or Boand ("white cow") was the goddess of the river Boyne. She was the wife of Nechtan or Elcmar. Her lover was the Dagda, by whom she was the mother of Aengus. In order to hide their affair, the Dagda made the sun stand still for nine months; therefore, Aengus was conceived, gestated and born in one day. To atone for this adultery, Boann bathed in the deadly water of the river Segais, in which she lost an arm, a leg, and an eye. Her flig ...

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Uriah (אוּרִיָּה "(My) light/flame of/is the LORD", Standard Hebrew Uriyya, Tiberian Hebrew ʾÛriyyāh) was the name of several men in the Old Testament: In the Books of Samuel, Uriah the Hittite is a soldier in King David's army. David has him killed after David's adultery with his wife Bathsheba. In 2 Kings 16:10-16, Uriah is a priest under Ahaz who builds a pagan altar and places it in the Temple of Jerusalem. In Jeremiah 26:20-23 Uriah is a prophet

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adultery: Sexual intercourse between a married man and a woman not his wife, or between a married woman and a man not her husband. Adultery is spoken of in Hindu shastras as a serious breach of dharma. See: sexuality.

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adultery: Sexual intercourse between a married man and a woman not his wife, or between a married woman and a man not her husband. Adultery is spoken of in Hindu shastras as a serious breach of dharma. See: sexuality.

(See also: Adultery, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Babylonian law - Marriage. Marriage retained the form of purchase, but was essentially a contract to be man and wife together. The marriage of young people was usually arranged between the relatives — the groom's father providing the bride-price, which with other presents, the suitor ceremonially presented to the bride's father. This bride-price was usually handed over by her father to the bride upon her marriage, and so returned into the bridegroom's possession, along with he ...

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