A Freebie Worthy of Deebye

[Occhidiangela]

Why?  What's wrong with a 'bit (or three) on-the-side'?  ... even within a marriage?

The law doesn't have any problem with it...
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Then its not much of a marriage, and thus no point in going to the altar in the first place. The law is not the issue, whybish, it is the violation of trust. That's personal.

Which takes us to the experiments in "open marriages." That fad, in the US at least, was unsustainable. Of course, there are probably still some that are working somewhere in Oregon and Northern California.

Back to "the goose and the gander both goosing outside the barnyard" is not that uncommon in arranged marriages, or marriages of convenience. But then, is it really a marriage? Not in my book. It a mercenary contract.

How about, polygamy, a standard for centuries? One sided, as I see it. You want to be part of the harem? Suit yourself. It is still a valid institution in some cultures. ANd as Duchess said to the Dirtwater Fox: "Six days off and one day on!"

One could take the French point of view, that a man's mistress and wife should never be introduced to one another (or something like that) but I suspect that is a PoV of the rich. And given the low birth rate among French, a contributor to their decline.

Occhi