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adultery
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adultery

Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her legal partner.

It is almost universally recognized as grounds for divorce in the US, and is a punishable offence in some states. The legal definition of adultery varies: in some states both parties have to be married (to other people); in others it is adultery if the woman is married but not if only the man is married, and so on.



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The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Pre-marital sex is really fornication by Fitzpatrick, Norman / Catholic Insight
Inevitably where legal marriage was broadly proscribed--and there was, moreover, a high ratio of settler and slave men to women--concubinage and fornication were rife.
Illegitimacy and family formation in colonial Cape Town, to c. 1850 by Malherbe, Vertrees C. / Journal of Social History
In perhaps the most speculative part of the book, and therefore the least convincing, he sees in the references to hands and feel euphemisms for masturbation and penises/ fornication respectively (and certainly not to be taken literally), and in the reference to "whoever causes the little ones to stumble" (Matt 9:42) an allusion to and condemnation of pederasty.
Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition by Crook, Zeba / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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