Adultery: Necessity or Weakness?

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Love is patient, love is kind, and love never fails. This is how Apostle Paul describes love in his letter to the Corinthians and these are the words that millions of marriages choose to recite during their wedding ceremonies. Partners promise in front of God and witnesses to be loyal and faithful all their lives. It is a fact, though, that many spouses break that promise at some point in life. On the one hand, there are those who argue that casual sex is a necessity and therefore, unavoidable. They convince themselves that an affair might even spice up a marriage thus be considered a marital bliss. On the other hand, other people consider it as a sign of weakness and as exceptionally deceiving. Now, I have come to the conclusion that inability to be loyal and faithful to a spouse is due to weakness of character.

Unarguably, there are millions of men and women who believe that adultery is a result of a human being's basic need of intercourse. They argue that mankind may be observed as with an innate lust to reproduce itself. Thus, although society has developed, human beings st...

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