extramarital sex
Unfaithful physical intimacy
Sexual activity between a married person and someone other than their spouse.
The term is clinical and neutral, covering everything from one-time encounters to long-term affairs: Evidence of extramarital sex can be grounds for divorce in some states.
The phrase implies violation of marital vows without the moral weight of words like adultery or cheating.
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- cheating spouseUnfaithful marriage partner
- illicit affairProhibited romantic relationship
- corespondentAdultery defendant in divorce
love affair · fornication · one night stand · free love · affair · emotional affair · betrayal · broken vows · sex work · promiscuity · sexual misconduct · dalliance · office romance · societal taboos · heartbreak · dishonesty · paramour · secret lover
- infidelityadultery, affair, adulteress, cheating, cheater
- marital problemsinfidelity, adultery, cheating, affair, divorce
- sexual customssexual norms, sexual taboos, courtship, virginity, chastity
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- sexual sinsfornication, adultery, lust, lechery, lewdness
- intimacykiss, hug, embrace, closeness, snuggling
extramarital sexmarital fidelity
Loyalty within marriage
faithfulness · monogamy · fidelity · exclusivity · chastity
marriage, unmarried, marital, extramarital, premarital, nonmarital, postmarital