By: Naveen Varathan
What is Adultery?
Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her
lawful spouse. ~Dictionary.com
Why is it an issue?
Everyone has sexual urges, but that is not the problem. It is the inability to keep an obligation that is the issue. The commitment one makes is meant to be everlasting, and so the voluntary act of infidelity reflects back to ones valued morals. As society looks over the issue as an inexcusable act, the percentages of those cheating in a relationship continue to increase, which leaves the statement: The morals valued by citizens are rapidly deteriorating.
"It would be deeply unusual to expect people to grow up in hedonistic liberated circles, experience the sweat and excitement of nightclubs and summer parks, be bathed in images of desire and songs of longing and ecstasy, and then one day, at the command of a certificate, renounce all further sexual discoveries in the name of no particular god and no higher commandment, just an unexplored supposition that it must all be very wrong." ~The Philospher's Mail