From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 05:40:18 BST
Hey again Johnny,
> Thanks for your explanations, they have been enlightening (to a point, i'm
> still conviced sexual intercourse is integral to marriage and adultery).
While there may be some technical sense it which 'adultery' is strictly
limited to actual intercourse (my dictionary also defines it as such), and
while many of us I'm sure regard extramarital intercourse as the worst kind
of marital betrayal, I simply don't think that such a limited definition has
much value or meaning to the average person. If your spouse committed
extramarital acts of oral-sex or sodomy I just couldn't imagine you would
take much comfort from the fact it wasn't technically 'adultery'. It's
adulterous. And ultimately I can't think of any value to excluding such
behavior from the definition. But if you find value in such an exclusion,
I'd say run with it...
take care
rick
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