adultery

[nextqueen]

if someone who is single is seeing someone who is married, ie they are having an affair or not even married ie engaged, is the single person classed as an adulter too? in other words can a single person be an adulterer?

[cazzz1975]

the single person is dating, its the person they are seeing who is having the affair as they are decieving the person they are supposed to be in a relationship with

[Hopkirk]

Adulterer:

a married man who has sex with a woman who is not his wife, or a man who has sex with another man's wife

(Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary)

http://dictionary.cam...ary/british/adulterer

[cazzz1975]

i bow to cambridge advanced learners dictionary ;)

[jackthehat]

Why is it called Adultery when it is a pretty juvenile thing to do ?

[Hopkirk]

I think Cambridge is being sexist.

It suggests that only men can be adulterers.

[cazzz1975]

its very egotistical

[nextqueen]

so a single friend of mine who is seeing a married man is not an adulterer?

[Francis Asis]

No, but she is a very silly girl.

[jackthehat]

She's certainly a fundemental part of the 'adultery' though...............

Is she splitting hairs and trying to justify her actions ?

[nextqueen]

i know she is a silly girl and told her she was committing adultery but she said she wasnt.

[jno]

this is a common line of thinking, especially on AB, but I'm not sure it's true. My dictionary just describes adultery as sex (voluntary) between a married person and someone who's not their partner - either sex. And an adulterer is someone committing adultery. That tells me that your friend is an adulterer. It's not the same as infidelity - only the married partner is guilty of that.