Extramarital Sex Relations
Scope Note
Presence or absence of an ideal of marital fidelity; cultural definition of adultery (e.g., applying to one or both spouses); allegations of promiscuity; incidence of adultery for both genders; prevention (e.g., isolation of sexes, physical barriers, public pledges, supernatural threats); initiation and conduct of adulterous liaisons; maintenance of extramarital partners; culturally sanctioned extramarital relations (e.g., cicisbeism, sexual hospitality); etc.
History Note
changed from "Presence or absence of an ideal of marital fidelity; cultural definition of adultery (e.g., applying to both spouses, to wife only); allegations of promiscuity; incidence of adultery for both genders; prevention (e.g., cloistering of women, chastity belts); initiation and conduct of adulterous liaisons; cicisbeism; keeping of mistresses; culturally sanctioned extramarital relations (e.g., wife lending, sexual hospitality); etc." 1/22/2019 LGD; changed (e.g., cloistering of women, chastity belts) 2/27/2019 LGD;
- Broader Term
- 830 Sex
- Related Terms
- 548 Illegal Entertainment
- 595 Polygamy
- 677 Organized Crime
- 684 Sex And Marital Offenses
- 786 Ecstatic Religious Practices
- 835 Kinship Regulation Of Sex
- 839 Miscellaneous Sex Behavior
- 848 Illegitimacy
- Use Fors
- Adultery (incidence)
- Affairs (extramarital)
- Belts (chastity)
- Chastity belts
- Cicisbeism
- Cloistered women (avoidance of sexual relations)
- Extramarital affairs (description)
- Fidelity (marital)
- Hetaera (as mistress)
- Hospitality (sexual)
- Incidence of adultery
- Lending (wife)
- Marital fidelity
- Mistresses
- Non-familial concubinage
- Sex relations (extramarital)
- Sexual hospitality
- Wife lending
- Women (cloistering)
- Identifier
- 837
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