Crime of adultery and self-determination of sex-life
The original korean text: http://stevision.blog.me/50117814090
Is it proper for a soldier to desert from barracks without notice, to go to an Internet Cafe, and to enjoy internet games there, claiming that the military discipline violates his right to determine his acts? Who can say, "That argument and that action are justifiable"?
Everyone in South Korea has the right to live happily. In particular, it is a rare blessing given to a human being for a person to marry the opposite beloved sex, not to divorce, and to live together until the death of one. However, if one spouse(A) is unfaithful to the other(B) and commits adultery and the family is destroyed, B who married A must suffer the destruction of all his (or her) life. If you come to divorce due to your spouse's adultery, how can you restart your life? How do you meet another woman and remarry her to restart your life at that age? And how much pain must the children whom your ex-wife bore to you suffer? And how much pain must the father-in-law or the mother-in-law suffer, the parents-in-law who had accepted the one who committed adultery as a member of the family? How can the victims of adultery reestablish the family?
Even if we think one thousand times, the conclusion will be one: it is as grave as a murder for a married person to commit adultery. Such behaviour brings disgrace on the adulterer's spouse, his children, his spouse's family, that is the parents-in-law, severely, and inflicts infinite spiritual torture upon them, and destructs his family so completely that recovery is impossible.
Marriage is established on love and respect, responsibility and duty. What makes this possible is the marital fidelity. Thus the adultery was severely punished everywhere from old times. However, from time to time, some judges have been appealing to the Constitutional Court for adjudication on the constitutionality of >punishment of adultery<, saying, illegality of adultery is unconstitutional." Their argument is that adultery defined as a crime (criminal conversation) infringes on the right to >self-determination of sex<. Does the adultery infringe on the right to determine one's sex-partner really?
Adultery (that is the definition of criminal adultery) has never infringed on that right. An adult man can make a decision on his lifestyle with his right to determine before his marriage: Either he, having many sex partners, will live like a dog all his life, or he, having only one spouse, will marry the woman, have sex only with her, form a family with her, and live with the dignity of human being to the end. If you exercise your right to determine your lifestyle for the marriage, you must assume the responsibility and duty that the marriage imposes on you. The marriage does not allow any other sex-partners than the one spouse. Who would marry a person that would live(, having many sex-partners,) like a dog or a bitch after the marriage? Therefore, a person who wants to get married is the one who has exercised one's right of >self-determination of sex< in the direction of having sex with no other sex-partners but with only one's spouse after the marriage. (He who has sex with other women after the marriage is inflicting great suffering upon his wife, so he and his sex-partners should get harshly punished. This is justice! If he had wanted to live like a dog, he shouldn't have been married.)
Thus the argument that the adultery defined as a crime infringes on the right to self-determination of sex is but a childish sophistry. Those who commit adultery should be imprisoned in jail, as a deserter should go to jail. These days, the judiciary and the administration administer a mild punishment to adultery, so that the unusefulness of the law of adultery has become an issue, which is not because the law is wrong, but because the execution of the law has been wrong. If the nation does not define such a wicked and severe crime of adultery as a criminal act, the whole family ethics and sex ethics of the nation will be destroyed and the families will collapse rapidly. What is a crime if the adultery is not a crime? All kinds of ethics are alive only when the nation defines the adultery as a severe crime. Adultery is a crime now(2011) in our nation, so no adulterers and adulteresses commit adultery openly, because the people think that adultery is a crime and a disgraceful conduct.
>>May those who intends to abolish the law of adultery be cursed! And may adulterers and adulteresses be cursed openly!<<