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Originally posted by ms. naughty diplomat
in the bible it says that if you lust after someone you commit adultry in your heart. personally, this seems like kind of an idiotic strategy if taken literally for a religion to adopt - because if you have already sinned and committed adultry in your heart by lusting after someone, you might as well have sex with them, but that is what the bible said so many fundamentalist christians believe that if you lust after someone you commit adultry in your heart. they kind of ignore the context that it was when Jesus stopped the pharasies from stoning a woman to death for adultry by saying "let he who is without this sin, cast the first stone" so that the lust in your heart thing was really about not judging other people not literally that lusting in your heart equals adultry.
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I won't get into what is or is not adultery, because I care little about that. I do think that if someone is going outside of their relationship for sexual fulfillment (unless it is sanctioned by the other person in the relationship and it somehow enhances something within the relationship - to each his own), then that is a big red flag that there is something wrong in the relationship. If John is sitting up at night talking to some cyberwoman to get his rocks off while Sally sleeps in the other room, they aren't doing things right for their mutual long term happiness.
