Marvin Wiegginns,
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Last updated: October 13, 2010
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In yet another attempt to try and overturn the "adultery law" in Korea, a Judge has filed an appeal to the top court saying that it can be seen as a violation of the constitution. He cites human nature and the right to choose sex partners.
He is quoted as saying: "The right to pursue happiness guaranteed by the Constitution includes the right to decide whether to engage in sexual intercourse and with whom, where and when to do so. Transforming adultery into a criminal offense is against the Constitution."
I personally agree that individuals should have the freedom to pursue happiness as they perceive it. Sex is a natural human desire and it is baseless to restrict it by law.
Moreover, the current law doesn?t consider a love affair to be an offense if there is no sexual intercourse.? It may interest you to know in Korea, one can be sentenced to a maximum of two-years behind bars for having sex outside marriage. However, I don't think it has made much impact on the sex life of Koreans.
As this news report informs you, according to Time magazine, about 65 percent of Korean married men had dated other women after they married and 41 percent of women had dated other men.
In a survey on 3,857 adults nationwide on adultery issues by a local weekly magazine, 42 percent of married men said that they had dated other women and 20 percent of women had dated other men. Also, nearly 68 percent of men and 12 percent of women said they had sex out of marriage.
The court had rejected three previous appeals against the adultery law made in 1990, 1993 and 2000. So this is the fourth attempt...lets see whether it works!
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Marvin Wiegginns,
31 Primorski Blvd Varna,
Varna 9000
Bulgaria
Last updated: October 13, 2010