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1 This was the civil ________ arising from the same act(s) giving rise to the criminal action for adultery, being based upon the husband's loss of property rights to his wife as a chattel.

2 Under Muslim law, adultery and extramarital sex in general is ________ by a person (whether man or woman) with someone to whom they are not married.

3 In some places, such as ________[40] and Saudi Arabia,[41] the method of punishment for adultery is stoning to death.

4 The Ordinance has been particularly controversial because it requires a woman making an accusation of ________ to provide extremely strong evidence to avoid being charged with adultery herself.

5 The Ordinance sets a maximum penalty of death, although only imprisonment and ________ have ever actually been imposed.

6 Adultery had at one time attracted severe sanctions, including the ________.

7 Adultery is not a crime in most countries of the European Union, including ________, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland or Sweden.

8 In the ________, laws vary from state to state.

9 Punishing by stoning is not mentioned in the Quran, and is based solely upon ________.

10 In some East Asian countries, including ________, and Taiwan, adultery continues to be a crime.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • a 1631 Bible (frontispiece pictured) commanded readers to commit adultery?
  • in the Latin poem De vetula, its supposed author Ovid renounces adultery?
  • the Council of Nablus, held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120, established punishments for adultery, bigamy, homosexuality, and sexual relations with Muslims?
  • Tutinama is a collection of 52 Persian stories narrated through a parrot to prevent his owner (pictured) from committing adultery while her husband was away?
  • Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is on death row in Iran for the crime of adultery, and was originally to be executed by stoning?
  • Japanese poet Kitahara Hakushu was jailed for adultery in 1912?
  • Hödekin, a house spirit of German folklore, is best known for saving the wife of a man of Hildesheim from committing adultery?
  • Saint Gangulphus, who was murdered by his wife's lover in 760, is invoked as a patron against adultery and marital difficulties?
  • Emmy Award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh described one scene in Talk to Me where a teacher commits adultery with her 15-year-old pupil as "not so much about sex as about love"?