[ SECRET POST #2906 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2906 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Cheating is entirely selfish

[(Anonymous)]

But do people really come down hard on the aforementioned examples, though?

And I feel like a lot of them don't really qualify as cheating.

If you were forced into a marriage, for example, I don't think that many people would count that as cheating. Same with seducing your partner's enemy -- you're essentially being blackmailed with their life.

Re: Cheating is entirely selfish

[sabotabby]

If you were forced into a marriage, for example, I don't think that many people would count that as cheating.

This is very culturally dependent. I know people in arranged marriages and they would absolutely consider their spouse sleeping with someone else as cheating! Think of all the political marriages in historical fiction; the people involved may not love each other, but it can still destroy a kingdom if affairs happen.

Same with seducing your partner's enemy -- you're essentially being blackmailed with their life.

Disagree; depends on the situation and genre. Maybe you could kill the enemy, but you choose the softer route that I would argue is more humane and ethical.

Re: Cheating is entirely selfish

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I totally agree. I was more thinking of it in the context of fandom. If someone writes a fic where a woman is forced to marry a king and is essentially his prisoner, I guess I wonder if fandom would really treat that as cheating?

Re: Cheating is entirely selfish

[sabotabby]

I'm thinking of it more in the context of something like Game of Thrones, where noblewomen (and some noblemen, see Tyrion) "consent" to be married all the time, but it's understood that the marriage is political. Cheating tends to happen to preserve one's own sanity (which I guess is selfish, if understandable) but also, because the alternatives to cheating (being completely miserable and sexless in your marriage, assassination, running away, divorce) are either impossible or would further destabilize your family and kingdom.