Can you commit adultery if you are not married?

Question

But (obviously) your partner is...

Answer 1

Your partner is cheating, not you.

Answer 2

Not legally, no - only the married party can be tried for adultery (where this is applicable). Morally, that would depend on your personal view.

Interestingly enough, in common law, only a married woman could be guilty of adultery. A married man was a philanderer.

Answer 3

Marriage, as we know it, is an obsolete concept that was only minimally legitimate during that period of history when most people only lived to be somewhere between 30 and 40 years old. Given the sheer unpleasantness of the unnatural restraint that marriage is, adultery in many cases is a legitimate response to an intolerable situation. If anything, many marriages owe their survival today to the adultery that either or both spouses commit.

Answer 4

yes you are then to not be with any one the rest of your life.

Fornication, pre-martial sex, adultery, and possible sexual abuse has been committed.

For bocasbeachbum's~~
"Adultery is strictly and historically defined as consensual sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man other than her lawful husband; meaning only the carnal intercourse of a wife with a man who is not her lawful husband. Both the married woman and the man, married or unmarried, are considered guilty of adultery if they engage in such an act. The intercourse of a married man with a single woman is not accounted as adultery, but philandery." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery

Think you need to do a bit more research on what adultery is.

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Answer 5

Yes. If your partner is married, then both of you commit adultery. If you both are single, then you commit fornication. Both are sin in the eyes of God.

Answer 6

Yes. Both people commit adultery whether both are married or not.

Answer 7

I have always wondered about this. Christians love throwing around the lust argument as to whether or not someone is a sinner. Lust is only a sin because you are commiting adultery in your mind. You can't commit adultery if neither party is married. So I guess for the unmarried lust is fine.

At least that's where logic leads.

Answer 8

Yes! Read the Bible!

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to lose on of your members than for your whole body to go into hell.

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." Matthew 5: 27-32

Answer 9

Yes. If your partner is married, you are a partner in the act of adultery.

Answer 10

The question you need to ask is - what is adultry - For 300 years adultry meant molesting children. And what is was translated from also meant molesting children. About 100 years ago the powers that be decided that they should change the commandment from thou shalt not molest children to thou shalt not have sex with some one we don't want you to have sex with. And since there was now no commandment against molesting children, guess who has been doing it big time for about 100 years. So commiting adultry is a figment of the christian mind.

Answer 11

Good question. I would say the partner commits adultery, you commit fornication.