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Adultery is no longer illegal in New York

• bell-cot 2y ago
  > New York's penal law previously said that "a person is guilty of adultery when he engages in sexual intercourse with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse." > It was considered a Class B misdemeanor, which carries a jail sentence of up to three months. (IANAL, but the "he" pronoun is almost certainly the old-fashioned grammar rule of defaulting to male when the gender is unknown.) Noteworthy - that 1907 law was virtually never enforced. One wonders what motivated the "justice" system to target the 13 people who were charged (with only 5 convicted).