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Article Outline: Is Adultery Immoral?

Thesis: Richard Wasserstrom discusses adultery citing key reasons why it is wrong including the fact that it constitutes an attack on marriage as well as deception and eventually concludes that fidelity is very important in supporting the marriage institution.

Preliminary points

· Engaging in adultery means that one is breaking a promise and deceiving someone.

· Adultery in the case described in intended to expose extramarital sexual behaviours.

Breaking of the marriage promise is more painful than breaking of any other promise in life.

· In almost all cases adultery involves a lot of deception and this means that because deception is immoral. Adultery is also immoral.

· Adultery involves sharing of feelings of love and affection as traditionally recognized in marriage.

· Hence, adultery becomes very immoral because it exploits what is preserved from those who enter into marriage.

· Adultery breaks trust and therefore it is immoral.

· Adultery involves sharing of feelings that no one shares with the rest of the world including intimacy and therefore the big break in trust.

Counter arguments in support of infidelity include;

· Sex Is not love or affection

· Many argue that extramarital sex is just sex for the sake of it and for temporary satisfaction and cannot be equated to love.

· They argue that the connection between sex and exclusivity should be broken.

· This would allow married people to cohabit outside marriage without offence

· It would form the biggest source of conflicts and diseases.

Conclusion- Fidelity is very important in the preservation of the marriage institution and it is important to eliminate extramarital sex because it breaks the biggest promise and also relies on deceit.