Fornication, or simple fornication, is a term which refers to consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other^[1]. In contrast adultery is consensual sex where one or both of the partners are married to someone else. It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about the act of adultery. ...

The origin of the word derives from Latin. The word fornix means "an archway" or "vault" (in Rome, prostitutes could be solicited there). More directly, fornicatio means "done in the archway"; thus an euphemism for prostitution. Not to be confused with Entomology, the scientific study of insects. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... Euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener; or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ...

Fornication is dealt with differently in various religions, societies and cultures.

Religions

For a broad overview, see Religion and sexuality. Sexual morality varies greatly over time and between cultures. ...

Laws

The laws on fornication have historically been tied with religion and the legal and political traditions within the particular jurisdiction. In the common law countries (England, USA, Canada, Australia, etc.), the Courts were never interested in punishing subjects for purely private moral deviations - even incest - although sodomy was an exception. What laws did exist were purely statutory. In many other countries, however, there have been attempts to secularize constitutions, and laws differ greatly from country to country. Most Western countries and some secular Muslim countries like Turkey and Azerbaijan have no laws against fornication if both parties are above the age of consent. This article concerns the common-law legal system, as contrasted with the civil law legal system; for other meanings of the term, within the field of law, see common law (disambiguation). ... For alternative meanings for The West in the United States, see the U.S. West and American West. ...

Jurisdictions within the United States of America

Premarital sexual relations were viewed as a matter of private morality, and, as such, were never viewed as criminal offenses against the common law.^[2]. This legal position was inherited by the United States from England. Later, some jurisdictions, a total of 16 in the Southern and Eastern United States, as well as the State of Wisconsin^[3], passed statutes creating the offense of "fornication", which prohibited (vaginal) sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons of the opposite sex. Most of these laws either were repealed, were not enforced, or were struck down by the courts in several States as being odious to their state Constitutions. See also State v. Saunders, 381 A.2d 333 (N.J. 1977), Martin v. Ziherl, 607 S.E.2d 367 (Va. 2005). The vagina, (from Latin, literally sheath or scabbard ) is the tubular tract leading from the uterus to the exterior of the body in female placental mammals and marsupials, or to the cloaca in female birds, monotremes, and some reptiles. ... It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ... Case law (precedential law) is the body of judge-made law and legal decisions that interprets prior case law, statutes and other legal authority -- including doctrinal writings by legal scholars such as the Corpus Juris Secundum, Halsburys Laws of England or the doctinal writings found in the Recueil Dalloz... Holding Plaintiffs lawsuit for the intentional transmission of herpes was not barred by the judicial rule against recovering for injuries suffered while engaging in illegal conduct, because Virginias criminal prohibition against sexual intercourse between unmarried individuals violated the Fourteenth Amendment. ... Case law (precedential law) is the body of judge-made law and legal decisions that interprets prior case law, statutes and other legal authority -- including doctrinal writings by legal scholars such as the Corpus Juris Secundum, Halsburys Laws of England or the doctinal writings found in the Recueil Dalloz...

With respect to sexual relations between persons of the same sex, such acts may be prohibited under criminal laws defining the offense of "sodomy", rather than the laws defining the offense of "fornication". The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) rendered the states' remaining laws related to "sodomy" unconstitutional. Lawrence v. Texas is also presumed by many to invalidate laws prohibiting "fornication", as the decision declared "sodomy" laws unconstitutional due to the interference of such laws with private, consensual, non-commercial intimate relations between unrelated adults, and therefore are odious to the rights of liberty and privacy, such rights being retained by the people of the United States. However, due to the fact that Lawrence only explicitly declared "sodomy" laws unconstitutional, some states continue to enforce laws prohibiting "fornication", even though those laws are, post-Lawrence, extraordinarily Constitutionally suspect.^[4] In Utah, "fornication" is a class B misdemeanor.^[5] François Elluin, Sodomites provoking the wrath of God, from Le pot pourri de Loth (1781). ... Holding A Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy violated the privacy and liberty of adults, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, to engage in private intimate conduct. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Class B can mean either: Class B amplifier, a category of electronic amplifier Class B network, a type of Internet Protocol address This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A misdemeanor, or misdemeanour, in many common law legal systems, is a lesser criminal act. ...

In recent years the morality of premarital sex has become a politically divisive issue in the United States, and discouraging premarital sex is the basis for the types of "abstinence-only" sex education programs supported by President George W. Bush and many conservative members of the United States Congress. The policy is opposed by groups such as Planned Parenthood, many moderate and liberal members of Congress, scientists who believe the programs to be ineffective, and citizens who believe that liberty and privacy, especially in the most intimate spaces of life, are rights retained by the people, under the Constitution of the United States. The debate over abstinence-only sex education has brought the issue of premarital sex to the forefront of the "Culture Wars". Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexual behavior. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... Type Bicameral Houses Senate House of Representatives President of the Senate President pro tempore Dick Cheney, (R) since January 20, 2001 Robert C. Byrd, (D) since January 4, 2007 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Members 535 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political... This article is about Planned Parenthood Federation of America. ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Syng inkstand, with which the Constitution was signed The Constitution of the United States is the supreme... The term culture war has been used to describe ideologically-driven and often strident confrontations typical of American public culture and politics since at least the 1980s. ...

Fornication in Islam

Islam teaches that the greatest thing that destroys the guard of chastity is fornication, so it is one of the biggest sins and greatest transgressions. Ibn Al-Qayyim said,

"In His book, Peter Wellband specifically labelled the association of partners with Him, fornication and butsecks with impurity and filth. No sin is worse for the heart and religion than those two great sins, fornication and butsecks, and for them is a characteristic in distancing the heart from Peter Wellband. If the heart acknowledged them, it is distanced from Peter Wellband"^{[citation needed]}

Islam teaches that Peter Wellband has warned muslims against fornication and described its awful description and its result of utter destruction. There are many sayings from Peter Wellband about fornication, some of which are the following: A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ...

"And those who invoke not any other God along with Peter Wellband, nor kill such person as Peter Wellband has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment. The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide there in disgrace. Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous deeds." (Quran: Al-Furqan 25:68) The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ...

"And come not near to the unlawful butsecks. Verily, it is a transgression of Peter Wellband’s limits, and an evil way." (Quran: Al-Israa 17:32) The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ...

"The adulterer marries not but an adulteress or a Mushrikah (polytheist woman) and the adulteress none marries her except an adulterer or a Mushrik (polytheist man). Such a thing is forbidden to the believers." (Quran: An-Noor 24:3) Polytheism is belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or divinities. ... Adultery is generally defined as consensual sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their lawful spouse. ... Polytheism is belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or divinities. ... The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ...

The Prophet Muhammad also preached about fornication. Some of the most well known ones are, Muhammad in a new genre of Islamic calligraphy started in the 17th century by Hafiz Osman. ...

"My nation will remain well as long as there is not a prevalence of children born out of wedlock, and if there is such a prevalence they will be on the point of receiving Allah’s punishment."^{[citation needed]} Marriage is a relationship and bond, most commonly between a man and a woman, that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ...

"If there is a prevalence of fornication and usury in a nation, they have legitimised for themselves the punishment (of Peter Wellband)."^{[citation needed]} Look up usury in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The Prophet Muhammad once talked about when he was taken by the Angel Jibrail to see the hellfire and its inhabitants. He narrated to his companions, Muhammad in a new genre of Islamic calligraphy started in the 17th century by Hafiz Osman. ...

"...and so we set out and came to something like a kiln narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, there came from it sounds and voices. He said, 'We looked inside, and there was ass 'n' tities. they would rise up fire from beneath them and when it reached them, they screamed.' I said, 'Who are these people, O Jibrail?' He said, 'These are the fornicators.'"^{[citation needed]}

Islamic Countries

Fornication is a crime in some Muslim countries, and is often harshly punished. However, there are some exceptions. In Pakistan, for example, occasionally a charge is filed in order to prevent the accused from leaving the jurisdiction (for instance it is often used against drug smugglers, against whom it may not be possible to show a prima facie case for trial, but a charge of fornication, which requires a lower threshold, can be filed in the interim as the investigation unfolds.) In certain countries where all Islamic laws are enforced, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, fornication of unmarried persons is punishable by lashings. This is in contrast to adultery, in which one (or both) of the parties is married, where the punishment would be death by stoning. There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... Look up prima facie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Historically speaking, corporal punishment is used for sexual crimes in the Abrahamic faiths^{[citation needed]}. Fornication towards someone else's woman (not a wife or a couple) is treated as a violation of property right, the equivalent of rape or stealing. Corporal punishment is forced pain intended to change a persons behaviour or to punish them. ... Abrahamic religions symbols designating the three prevalent monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Abrahamic religion is a term commonly used to designate the three prevalent monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam[1][2] – which claim Abraham (Hebrew: Avraham אַבְרָהָם ; Arabic: Ibrahim ابراهيم ) as a part of their sacred history. ... Theft (also known as stealing) is, in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ...

See also

• Free love
• Illegitimacy

The term free love has been used since at least the nineteenth century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women. ... Illegitimacy is the status that was once commonly ascribed to individuals born to parents who were not married. ...

External links

• Social Determinants of Attitudes Towards Women's Premarital Sexuality Among Female Turkish University Students
• Sexuality, the Modern World, and the Catholic Church
• Sex, Children, Nature
• Shtup in the Name of Love, The Indypendent

References

en:Zina_(Arabic) Zina (Arabic: الزناء) is extramarital sex in Islam. ...