Look at my previous post, I’m not condoning the act of cheating, I’m saying that pre-marital sex, non-vaginal, and other things that have historically fallen under the banner of “adultery” are not crimes because there is no victim. If a spouse cheats, then divorce court is the legal remedy.
I’m not suggesting that anyone is condoning adultery here.
What I’m arguing, however, is that adultery is not a victimless crime because the cheating spouse hides his or her extramarital activities and then places the faithful spouse at risk of contracting disease. Therefore, adultery is a type of reckless endangerment.
I have a theory for why some of you believe adultery is victimless: You probably think of adultery as one affair between two people. To the contrary, cheating spouses (especially now in the internet age) can hook up with multiple people, many of them strangers. They risk picking up disease and carrying it home to their unsuspecting faithful spouses.