Alecta
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I was going to start a information thread on cuckoldry vs voyeurism vs fluffer, but then got carried away with more important things like Sunday with the family and flirting with Violet on cmail. Baroana, your tangent is greatly interesting. In the ancient times of my culture, cheating is frowned upon universally but women were generally seen as "unable to help themselves" as though sexual fidelity was something beyond a woman's own control, and mostly it was other women expecting the women to be faithful. Our term for the husband cheated on was originally translated as "cuckolded", with the metaphor being that what we today call the "bull" is the cuckoo bird(cuckold is an old french slur for cuckoo, which shows you what the French were up to), sneaking his sperm (egg) into the nest (the wife). In our own tongue, words existed for the cheating wife before it existed for the cheated husband. The term for "a pair of adulterers" translates literally as "treacherous man and lustful woman". Also, that cheating wives did not used to be punished for cheating. Their husbands divorced them, if they choose, but the law did nothing about them unless some other crime had been committed. Men on the other hand, could be brought before the law for cheating on their wives and by their mistresses for abandonment. Women were often exiled for being troublemakers, though, and while this label is not used exclusively on unfaithful women, they were included as well if the circumstances of their cheating caused civil unrest and uproar outside of their own homes and families.
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