[contessa machiaveli]

ZOT? please define.

another question, internet sex (in my opinion isn't adultery). adultery is when you have sexual relations with another person in the flesh.

i'm curious about everyone's opinion....should make for a lively discussion.

[Diddle E. Squat]

internet sex (in my opinion isn't adultery). adultery is when you have sexual relations with another person in the flesh.

Only if you discard the New Testament...

[wideawake]

If we define adultery as intercourse outside of marriage then internet dalliances are not adultery in a clinical sense.

But they are in a moral sense, and they are in every way adulterous. They are a violation of one's marriage vows, they constitute an alienation of affection legally, and they are deeply sinful.

[mountaineer]

Kim Russell, 35, collapsed naked in front of Stephen Lambert in a hotel room

Sounds like they got to the "sexual relations" point of an adulterous relationship.

[Blood of Tyrants]

ZOT is a FR slang term similar to sap, fry, kill, etc. internet sex (in my opinion isn't adultery).

ARE YOU NUTS? Psycological affairs are every bit as destructive as physical affairs. Mpst people don't start Internet affairs with the intent of leaving their husband or wife and children, but way too any end up like that.

[Redcloak]

another question, internet sex (in my opinion isn't adultery). adultery is when you have sexual relations with another person in the flesh.

"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

Matthew 5:27-28

Adultery starts in the heart.

[sweetjane]

An internet affair is an emotional affair. While it doesn't threaten the parties involved with pregnancy or STDs, it still hurts the marriage and family even if it is not consummated physically.

Here is an example of an emotional affair, though it wasn't an internet affair. I know of a married woman who had an emotional affair with the pastor of her church, also married. They had made plans to run off together, though they had never "consummated" the relationship. People in the church found out and confronted them. The woman and the pastor ended it with the pastor and his wife moving away. Both were self-righteous about the whole thing because they never had physical relations, despite the fact that it devastated their families and the people in the church.

[technochick99]

I would call it emotional infidelity, which I believe is every bit as wrong as physical infidelity. An occasional flash of lust is a bit different.

[Yeti]

another question, internet sex (in my opinion isn't adultery). adultery is when you have sexual relations with another person in the flesh

There are also those who would say that even sex isn't adultery if the woman doesn't get pregnant, thereby adulterating the familyy bloodline.

But, whatever else it is or is not, it is certainly: treacherous, immoral, sneaky, petty, and other adjectives...

[cherry]

if you are talking about adultery in the religeous, Biblical sense, my belief is that the Bible includes "lusting" as against the ten commandments...something in the Bible along the idea of if you think it in your head, you are just as guilty as if you actually did it....

[NYC Republican]

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