These matters should clearly be handled by these individuals and not our criminal justice system.
Lets take this silly, outdated statute off the books, once and for all.
New Yorks adultery law advanced neither purpose, Lavine said in a statement Friday.
What an incredible development.
There’s a lot of things I don’t like about New York City.
Sometimes I wonder if I’d be better off moving back to Ohio.
Thank you, New York.
This is fantastic news for single folks as well.
Jokes aside, I might not hate this law.
Maybe we should have kept it.
I think I see the vision.
I see a world where it could potentially save some marriages.
Or to a single person who hooks up with a married person.
But think about how a husband cheating on a wife in a traditional marriage typically plays out.
The wife uncovers erotic text messages between her husband and his hot young Eastern European secretary.
The husband admits to everything.
They have a blowout fight.
The husband says something along the lines of, “I’m sorry, but I’m a man.
Things of that nature.
That’s followed by months and months of animosity.
There’s a lot of apologies.
A lot of “FUCK YOU!
“, “NO, FUCK YOU!”
The wife considers filing for divorce.
But in the end she doesn’t (because of the kids).
It’s a whole annoying, tedious process that nobody wants to go through.
So the end it all just kinda fizzles out.
But consider what happens if the husband is punished by law.
The wife turns his cheating ass into the authorities.
She proves beyond any reasonable doubt that he fucked Anastasia in the back of his Tesla.
He’s forced to spend 3 months in jail.
That’s a tangible punishment the husband has to face.
The wife gets to feel as if justice was served.
He’d likely just spend 3 months in jail seething mad.
Getting angrier and angrier at the fact that his wife would do this to their family.
Then he comes out of jail a hardened, violent criminal.
Now the whole family is in danger.
That’s not good.
I mean what exactly constitutes cheating?
Do you only get 3 months for full-penetration?
What’s the sentence for a blow job?
What about DM’s on Instagram?
That’s probably not a road you want to leave open for anybody to go down.
So I guess it’s a good thing this law was repealed.
Not that it was being enforced anymore anyways.
But divorce court is ugly enough in its own right.
We don’t need “Cheating Court” of top of it.
In that case, the entertainment would obviously be worth it.
But if you’re living in New York, cheat aways ladies and gentlemen.
Your spouse still might murder you.
Or take half of what you own.
