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It's actually a crime for military members to commit adultery, and it's taken pretty seriously (at least in the units I've been in). One can imagine that the p

by unit91 9y ago

It's actually a crime for military members to commit adultery, and it's taken pretty seriously (at least in the units I've been in). One can imagine that the penalty for adultery has an impact on divorce rates. ETA: It's also illegal even if you are single but sleep with somebody who's married (whether the married person is military or not).

TulliusCicero 9y ago
Curious, do they make allowances for swingers and the like, where the extramarital sex is consensual?
- JonnyNova 9y ago
  All extramarital is still illegal, consensual included.
- glibgil 9y ago
  The government has to prove that a person's conduct has direct negative impact on the military. If the acts are consensual, but it causes social problems later that's enough to get the person in trouble
glibgil 9y ago
It's taken so seriously that those involved tend to almost never talk about it. They still cheat at the same rate as anyone else
Blackthorn 9y ago
"It's not cheating if it happened on deployment" is practically a meme. How seriously it's taken seems pretty inconsistent, to say the least.