FILE - A marriage official offers a couple their rings during their wedding at the Empire State Building in New York, Wednesday Feb. 14, 2007. Cheating on your spouse is illegal in New York — but the state might soon change that. A bill working its way through the New York Legislature could repeal a more than century old law that makes adultery a crime. ALBANY, N.Y. — For more than a century, it has been a crime to cheat on your spouse in New York.
Adultery bans are still on the books in several states across the U.S., though charges are also rare and convictions even rarer. They were traditionally enacted to reduce thesince 1907, is defined in state code as when a person “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 just makes no sense whatsoever and we’ve come a long way since intimate relationships between consenting adults are considered immoral,” he said. “It’s a joke. This law was someone’s expression of moral outrage.” The law almost was removed from the books in the 1960s after a state commission tasked with updating the entire penal code found the ban practically impossible to enforce. The commission’s leader was quoted at the time as saying, “this is a
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