Posted on 12/29/2014 8:22:43 AM PST by C19fan
This may seem to be a rather obscure topic, but it popped up while I was reading Helen Smith’s musings on whether or not pornography should be made illegal and the long term, detrimental effects that it can have on marriage. As a subset of that discussion, she touched on David Friedman’s book, Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters. In it, Friedman makes the following observation on prostitution in general and the specific side effects it can have when married men pay for sex outside of marriage. (I specify “men” here only because incidents of women engaging prostitutes are so rare as to be a statistical anomaly. In theory this would apply to either gender.)
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The current US government will need to be replaced before adultery could be made illegal. That said this topic is a non-starter.
Most voters are so ignorant, they’d think you’re outlawing adults.
Should infancy be illegal? Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
No. You can’t regulate morality. If you attempt to do so then what is or isn’t moral is up to the ones who do the regulating and our current crop of law makers have much improvement to make with themselves before they could even begin to try it on us.
“the gov’t should pass a law charging husbands who do not put down the toilet seat with a criminal offense”........
Whoa, that’s where I draw the line. when a man knows enough to LEFT the seat, a woman should know enough to put it down when needed. The law could work both ways. Case dismissed!
Isn’t it already a misdemeanor in certain states?
One of things that cause me pause on this is: If all our rights are given by God (as the Founders believed), than how can there be a right....to do what is wrong?
Frankly, I am far, far more concerned at the normalization of homosexual lifestyles in prime time Television, schools, books, movies - everywhere.
I finally quit watching that “Modern Family” show because of the time they devote to those two homosexuals that adopted a little girl. Flaming nicety. Innocuous, harmless presentation of ‘human love’ between two humans.
They very, very carefully avoid the actual physicality of exactly how that ‘love’ is reinforced every night in the bedroom....
A child see this fake ‘loving’ and caring and is treated to the dance-around discussions of daddy-daddy or mommy-mommy and thinks everything is rainbows and lollipops.
If the child to actually witness what really goes on in daddy-daddy time, they’d run screaming out of the bedroom
This kind of crap is doing far more damage that any porno.
No. And this topic begs another question: How is it that Conservatives are the first to fight back against big gubmint - until, that is, it’s Conservative’s big gubmint. Then, by all means, let’s have as much as possible!
For the record ..... adultry is illegal. Its against God's law. That's really the one that counts.
The fact that this was brought up for discussion is a problem......
NO!
If you do, then you might as well continue on to Sharia laws for this country.
If you can’t legislate morality then the courts should have no opinion on divorce cases where one partner in a legally recognized marriage cites the infidelity of the other partner.
You don’t get more stuff or custody of the kids just because the other person cheated...
Well when it comes to toilet seats, any man who has lived with women knows the default position is seat down.........
One would suppose that a federal government that
can define “marriage” would have no problem
defining adultery.
It would come as a big shock to some people.
Adultery is definitely illegal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Totally agree!
No
Our jails are full enough the way it is. We don’t need yet another reason to get the legal system involved in people’s lives.
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